{"product_id":"its-this-laura-foley-9781594981036","title":"It's This","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt's This\u003c\/em\u003e contemplates relationships, identity, love, loss, and radical transformation, finding acceptance, joy, and growing peace, as the speaker practices meditation, and falls more deeply in love with her wife.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmploying spare, musical language and humor, and suffused with light, these vivid poems flash back to the speaker's past, as they practice empathy and compassion in the present - for self and others, across political aisles, and species. Learning to accept mortality in losing loved ones and chaplaining hospice patients, she increasingly appreciates what presence has to teach, in the woods of nature and relationships: everything we seek is already in us, in each shining moment we allow ourselves to focus wholly on everything present, the hologram of \u003cem\u003ethis\u003c\/em\u003e, which is the universe, \"this field of snow, where I sit alone\/on a hilltop, until I think of nothing, \/ but light - light on snow, light\/prisming ice, light on light, on light.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura Foley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1594981035\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781594981036\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fernwood Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/18\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.24d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/18\/2023","brand":"Laura Foley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44132297212159,"sku":"9781594981036","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6d7ec3e6-b138-4687-8da9-e105509d9cfb.jpg?v=1687479385","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/its-this-laura-foley-9781594981036","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}