{"product_id":"instruments-of-the-true-measure-laura-da-9780816538270","title":"Instruments of the True Measure: Poems Volume 83","description":"\u003ci\u003eInstruments of the True Measure\u003c\/i\u003e charts the coordinates and intersections of land, history, and culture. Lyrical passages map the parallel lives of ancestral figures and connect dispossessions of the past to lived experiences of the present. Shawnee history informs the collection, and Da's fascination with uncovering and recovering brings the reader deeper into the narrative of Shawnee homeland. Images of forced removal and frontier violence reveal the wrenching loss and reconfiguration of the Shawnee as a people. The body and history become lands that are measured and plotted with precise instruments. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Surveying and geography underpin the collection, but even as Da' investigates these signifiers of measurement, she pushes the reader to interrogate their function within the stark atrocities of American history. Da' laments this harsh dichotomy, observing that America's mathematical point of beginning is located in the heart of her tribe's homeland: \"I do not have the Shawnee words to describe this place; the notation that is available to me is 40 38 32.61   N 80 31 9.76   W.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura Da'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816538271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816538270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2018","brand":"Laura Da'","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072452686079,"sku":"9780816538270","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3171ba0a-6791-474d-a4e7-058f419be33c.jpg?v=1685442055","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/instruments-of-the-true-measure-laura-da-9780816538270","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}