{"product_id":"our-own-beautiful-brutality-karen-poppy-9781646625437","title":"our own beautiful brutality","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn poems both brutal and beautiful, Karen Poppy traces the interconnectedness-symbiotic, antagonistic, and metaphorical-of the endangered antelope and human worlds. All the grace and violence of both worlds is here in poems that are moving, necessary, and ultimately life-affirming. I could not put down this powerful book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e -Steve Bellin-Oka\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eInstructions for Seeing a Ghost\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoppy is a poet of the 21st Century. Her pen is compelling, pointing out the crucial need for human, animal, and environmental rights and respect. Her poems inspire transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e -Lynne Cox\u003c\/strong\u003e, American long-distance open-water swimmer, New York Times best-selling author, and speaker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis glowing collection of Karen Poppy's verses reads at once as spare and abundant, elegant and generous. Her lines stretch and shrink, experimenting with a wide range of forms, and her best rhymes read like plot twists. \u003cem\u003eour own beautiful brutality\u003c\/em\u003e asks what all readers and writers ask each other across the resonance of words: \"how in sudden shift did I become you?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e -Betsy Cornwell\u003c\/strong\u003e, New York Times best-selling author and founder of The Old Knitting Factory: making space for single moms to make art in a 1906 knitting school in Connemara\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karen Poppy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1646625439\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646625437\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Finishing Line Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 44\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.11d","brand":"Karen Poppy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988600455423,"sku":"9781646625437","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ff58ea7c-38a9-4a9e-b435-638faae8c34a.jpg?v=1683295335","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/our-own-beautiful-brutality-karen-poppy-9781646625437","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}