{"product_id":"the-accidental-gina-franco-9781682261057","title":"The Accidental: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eCascading through each of the poems in Gina Franco's \u003ci\u003eThe Accidental\u003c\/i\u003e is a question: What does it mean to be human in a world where the soul is exalted but the body brutalized? Franco explores the terrain of the borderlands--not just the physical space of the American southwest, but the spaces where lines are drawn between body and soul, God and self, violence and ecstasy. Unfolding along these borders in a torrent of deep contemplation, Franco's poems bring the reader to the line between accident and choice, delving into the role each plays in creating the lives we are born into and in determining how those lives end. A body caught in a tree after a flood--an accident--calls to mind deliberate violences: crucifixion and lynching.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuided, even so, by a stark hopefulness, \u003ci\u003eThe Accidental\u003c\/i\u003e makes a character of the soul and traces its pilgrimage from suffering toward transcendence. \"The soul saw,\" Franco writes, \"that it saw through the wound.\" This book tenders a creation myth steeped in existential philosophy and shimmering with the vernacular of the ecstatic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gina Franco\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1682261050\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781682261057\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arkansas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/14\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.30d","brand":"Gina Franco","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43979540332799,"sku":"9781682261057","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_257852ca-208a-46a0-91d7-ccb61fc856dc.jpg?v=1683245936","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-accidental-gina-franco-9781682261057","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}