{"product_id":"meteoric-flowers-elizabeth-willis-9780819568496","title":"Meteoric Flowers","description":"Elizabeth Willis's new collection is a stunning collision of the pastoral tradition with the politics of the post-industrial age. These poems are allusive and tough. While they celebrate the pleasures of the natural world-mutability, desire, and the flowering of things-they are compounded by a critical awareness of contemporary culture. As we traverse their associative leaps, we discover a linguistic landscape that is part garden, part wilderness, where a poem can perform its own natural history. Divided into four cantos interrupted by lyrics and errata, Meteoric Flowers mirrors the form of Erasmus Darwin's 18th-century scientific pastorals. In attending to poetry's investigative potential, Willis shifts our attention from product to process, from commodity to exchange, from inherited convention to improvisational use.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth Willis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081956849X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819568496\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 12\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.92h x 6.08w x 0.28d","brand":"Elizabeth Willis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980616237311,"sku":"9780819568496","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b173beed-fca9-4efb-80c7-d30dedbb9389.jpg?v=1683250927","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/meteoric-flowers-elizabeth-willis-9780819568496","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}