{"product_id":"love-like-a-body-carried-abigail-chabitnoy-9780819502650","title":"Love Like a Body Carried to Shore","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElegy for a broken world and all it--we--might still become.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove Like a Body Carried to Shore\u003c\/i\u003e, from award-winning poet Abigail Chabitnoy, is an invitation to listen. This ecologically and emotionally charged collection explores continuity through water and weather, through the intimacies of relation, where knowing is a bodied verb. Moving with a tidal rhythm across its unsectioned form, the book weaves ancestral memory with myth. It stays with the work of environmental witness and extends its meditation to the permeability between human and animal. Domestic spaces blur with the mythic. The self emerges inside the landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEngaging Indigenous and Judeo-Christian cosmologies, Chabitnoy reconfigures these frames into openings toward mutuality. Amid ecological and cultural precarity, the poems enact reclamation, seeking moments outside of causal time, where future catastrophe loosens its hold long enough for the body to remember what it is to love the world and be loved by it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[sample poem]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOT A DRILL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe berries were not \u003cbr\u003eripe we plucked and \u003cbr\u003eburst on our tongues.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe bent low to thumb\u003cbr\u003eeach foreign body that\u003cbr\u003eopened\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eheld our breath to \u003cbr\u003erecord erratics \u003cbr\u003eglissading\u003cbr\u003efrom the mountains we \u003cbr\u003eleft standing\u003cbr\u003e the sigh of icemelts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethe rust we smelled\u003cbr\u003ealready monument.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was love we \u003cbr\u003epressed our fingers\u003cbr\u003ethrough\u003cbr\u003ethe honeyed fungus \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003elove we let the \u003cbr\u003eshallow rooted \u003cbr\u003espruce stand \u003cbr\u003ewhere no one had need \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003elove we sang to \u003cbr\u003echase the bears \u003cbr\u003efrom the \u003cbr\u003ebrush \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewe projected \u003cbr\u003eon the iceberg \u003cbr\u003ewhen the dark was \u003cbr\u003esufficient \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003elove we refrained \u003cbr\u003efrom throwing \u003cbr\u003estones at the\u003cbr\u003emuddied lake. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSea weeding \u003cbr\u003ethrough green \u003cbr\u003eit was love \u003cbr\u003ewe did not pluck \u003cbr\u003ethe unsightly \u003cbr\u003egrowth from the \u003cbr\u003esupple \u003cbr\u003eearth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Abigail Chabitnoy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0819502650\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819502650\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Abigail Chabitnoy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48520222638335,"sku":"9780819502650","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3a01c719-b21e-43fd-a2f8-3c4a8c73c385.jpg?v=1778741472","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/love-like-a-body-carried-abigail-chabitnoy-9780819502650","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}