{"product_id":"holiday-in-the-islands-of-jeffrey-mcdaniel-9780822966104","title":"Holiday in the Islands of Grief: Poems","description":"In his new collection, Jeffrey McDaniel confronts the insular and expansive qualities of loss. With electric language and surrealistic imagery, McDaniel's poems deliver the quotidian elements of middle-age life while weaving us in \u0026amp; out of childhood and adulthood alongside body and mind. The tragic and life affirming share the same page and the same world, reminding us how close corruption can be to innocence; domesticity to fantasy; aging to youth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eJonathan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We are underwater off the coast of Belize.\u003cbr\u003e The water is lit up even though its dark\u003cbr\u003e as if there are illuminated seashells\u003cbr\u003e scattered on the ocean floor.\u003cbr\u003e We're not wearing oxygen tanks, \u003cbr\u003e yet staying underwater for long stretches.\u003cbr\u003e We are looking for the body of the boy\u003cbr\u003e we lost. Each year he grows a little older.\u003cbr\u003e Last December I opened his knapsack\u003cbr\u003e and stuck in a plastic box of carrots.\u003cbr\u003e Even though we're underwater, we hear\u003cbr\u003e a song playing over a policeman's radio.\u003cbr\u003e He comes to the shoreline to park\u003cbr\u003e and eat midnight sandwiches, his headlights\u003cbr\u003e fanning out across the harbor.\u003cbr\u003e And I hold you close, apple of my closed eye, \u003cbr\u003e red dance of my opened fist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeffrey McDaniel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822966107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822966104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/25\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 65\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.30d","brand":"Jeffrey McDaniel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44190932664575,"sku":"9780822966104","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c1547cd8-8e2e-46dd-ada1-fd4f314dc426.jpg?v=1690873132","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/holiday-in-the-islands-of-jeffrey-mcdaniel-9780822966104","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}