{"product_id":"terra-nova-cynthia-huntington-9780809335756","title":"Terra Nova","description":"Finalist, Balcones Poetry Prize, 2017 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this bold and ambitious book-length poem, National Book Award finalist Cynthia Huntington explores exile and migration--what it means to lose, seek, and find home in all its iterations--through a polyphonic work, written in multiple voices and evoking the method of Hart Crane's \u003ci\u003eThe Bridge \u003c\/i\u003eor the Nighttown episode in James Joyce's \u003ci\u003eUlysses. \u003c\/i\u003eYet it is also a tough and vernacular work, owing as much to Patti Smith and the Clash as it does to High Modernism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Again and again the work shows us outsiders forced into metaphorical and literal wildernesses, whether in a retelling of the biblical Israelites lost in the desert or in stories from Provincetown, Massachusetts, where the new world struggles into being at the edge of the sea. Yet the voices here, across many times and places, refuse to give in to desolation and despair. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Huntington's approach is hybrid, oscillating between verse and lyrical prose to create a work that falls somewhere between an epic poem and a collection of lyric essays. Whether chronicling the creation of the world and the first exile from the Judeo-Christian Garden of Eden or imagining the terror and thrill of the first sea voyages, this is electric poetry: challenging, startling, and fulfilling. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cynthia Huntington\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0809335751\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780809335756\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 01\/09\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d","brand":"Cynthia Huntington","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46825747906815,"sku":"9780809335756","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_442365af-3f37-4c93-9bab-d000f32e55f0.jpg?v=1746073512","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/terra-nova-cynthia-huntington-9780809335756","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}