{"product_id":"life-in-a-field-katie-peterson-9781632430908","title":"Life in a Field: Poems","description":"This is a comedy about climate change, in which a girl and a donkey become friends, then decide to marry time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A lyric fable, \u003ci\u003e Life in a Field\u003c\/i\u003e intersperses Katie Peterson's slow-moving, cinematic, and sensual writing with three folios of photographs by Young Suh. Introspection, wish, dream, and memory mark this tale, which is set in a location resembling twenty-first-century California--with vistas and orchards threatened by drought and fires. This is also a place of enchantment, a fairy-tale landscape where humans and animals live as equals. As the girl and the donkey grow up, they respond to the difficulties of contemporary civilization, asking a question that meets our existential moment: What do you do with the story you didn't wish for? A narrator's voice combines candor with distance, attempting to find a path through our familiar strife, toward a future that feels all but impossible, and into what remains of beauty and pleasure. \u003ci\u003eLife in a Field\u003c\/i\u003e tries to reverse our accelerating destruction of the natural world, reminding us of \"the cold clarity we need to continue on this earth.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Katie Peterson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1632430908\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781632430908\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Omnidawn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/17\/2021","brand":"Katie Peterson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44050433933567,"sku":"9781632430908","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_473e5d38-cc0d-4723-af5d-09a024386893.jpg?v=1685007199","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/life-in-a-field-katie-peterson-9781632430908","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}