{"product_id":"nostalgia-for-a-world-where-monica-berlin-9780809336838","title":"Nostalgia for a World Where We Can Live","description":"Monica Berlin's \u003ci\u003eNostalgia for a World Where We Can Live\u003c\/i\u003e resides at the turbulent confluence of relentless news cycles and the repeated rending of our interior lives. In Berlin's poetry sorrow makes its own landscape--solitary, intimate, forward-looking. Whether we attempt to traverse it or choose bypass, her poems show us where we live, how we carry on. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These poems notice the day in the wind, the night tucked up to the train tracks, and a slipping-in of yesterday, memory-laden, alongside the promise of a more hopeful tomorrow. Here is the Midwest, vibrant \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e relic, in the ongoing years of collapse and recovery. Here the constant companionship of weather lays claim to its own field of vision. Here, too, devastation: what's left after. Berlin reminds us we are at the mercy of rivers, oceans, earth, wind, rain, blizzard, drought, and each other. \"Maybe what I mean \/ to say is that I've come to see all the names we might \/ recognize destruction by,\" Berlin's speaker discovers. \"We might \/ sometimes, stupidly, call it \u003ci\u003elove\u003c\/i\u003e.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e On her familiar prairie of lyricism and tumult, beauty and ruin, Berlin's poems insist, plead, and seek to reassure. In a collection both mournful and urgent, both a \"little book of days\" and a song, this poet meditates on loss, wonder, and always the consolations of language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Monica Berlin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0809336839\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780809336838\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Southern Illinois University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/11\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.50d","brand":"Monica Berlin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947264704767,"sku":"9780809336838","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_7d7c2d23-4941-44a3-bbf1-902a76d64b6c.jpg?v=1681517689","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nostalgia-for-a-world-where-monica-berlin-9780809336838","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}