{"product_id":"surviving-home-katerina-canyon-9781639800018","title":"Surviving Home","description":"Katerina Canyon's poems offer intimate accounts of home as the locus of danger - and homeland as a state of oppression. They are at once urgent and mysterious, full of ocean depths and surging currents. Far from nostalgia, home inspires in this poet a vigilance, keeping watch on herself and others. Her very language is charged with the alert intelligence that offers a means of survival, and metaphors that transform pain into poetry.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Devin Johnston, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eMosses and Lichens\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKaterina Canyon's poems dive into history unafraid to explore the complexity of home and family and acknowledge: \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe sea is filled with bones.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThis powerful, engaging collection where we see \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe billowing skirt of sunset\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e asks again and again: How do get past our pasts?\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eSmart, poignant, compassionate, Canyon's poems remind us that strength happens despite one's childhood and one's country; they exclaim, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe can choose whether we are stuck \/ In darkness or in light.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e-\u003c\/i\u003eKelli Russell Agodon, author of\u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003eDialogues with Rising Tides\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn lush language and startling images, Katerina Canyon unveils a story \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ei\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003en blood and bone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e of a speaker who survives domestic cycles of addiction and abuse, terrors \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ehanded down from the plantation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e through generations of her kin . . . Like the Phoenix, the speaker dares to draw near destruction to name our violent histories in order to claim a survivor's eternal understanding of how to love, how to mother, and how to teach the world that \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe cannot be bound. We are free. We are infinite.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Katy Didden, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Glacier's Wake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Katerina Canyon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1639800018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639800018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelsay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/28\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2022 pg. 165","brand":"Katerina Canyon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43987167641855,"sku":"9781639800018","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d84fb80e-8511-4cec-b2d5-431c60d93e38.jpg?v=1683287403","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/surviving-home-katerina-canyon-9781639800018","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}