{"product_id":"levee-paul-otremba-9781945588419","title":"Levee","description":"The poems in Paul Otremba's\u003ci\u003e Levee\u003c\/i\u003e explore the intersection between the ecological, the political, and the personal in a world built on oil and greed. The city of Houston is at once backdrop and metaphor for the ways in which violence--both natural and manmade--have become part and parcel of twenty-first century life. \"It's a luxury to be this calm,\" Otremba writes in the opening poem, a held-breath between the disastrous effects of hurricanes and cancer. Yet Otremba's exquisite lines manage to wrest meaning from the devastation wrought by both global warming and a terminal illness: \"If there is a lesson \/ on how not to worry, it's that you're not stuck only being one thing, \/the multitudes in me and the multitudes in you.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Otremba\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1945588411\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781945588419\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Four Way Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/03\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/15\/2019","brand":"Paul Otremba","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43987369394431,"sku":"9781945588419","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_74ddc963-16e6-46c2-b9fa-95169797452b.jpg?v=1683288577","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/levee-paul-otremba-9781945588419","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}