{"product_id":"the-holy-or-the-broken-kristina-hakanson-9781646627578","title":"The Holy or the Broken Hallelujah","description":"In this impressive first collection, Kristina Hakanson gives us-in both free verse and lyric prose forms-poems of considerable range and power, most poignantly those about her beloved father's terminal illness. In one, she makes this striking and quintessentially human confession: \"I'm about to say goodbye \/ to my bedridden father, \/ the first man I loved, \/ the only one whose heart I refuse to break, \/ ashamed that I ever did, \/ if I ever did. \/ I'm sure I did.\" Hakanson's work evokes a fraught yet wrenchingly beautiful world-a \"heaven's underside\" in which \"Each sorrow converted to ice \/ grows warm in the palm of your hand.\"\u003cstrong\u003e-Paulann Petersen, \u003c\/strong\u003eOregon Poet Laureate Emerita\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth elegiac and celebratory, these poems derive their strength from the real world around us: wooden spoons, egg-beaters, a coffee cup, the teeth of a harrow-touched here and there by an element of the surreal (a wolf in a cello). I admire their clean language and plainspoken balance, from the mundane to the eternal-their realization that \"Whole lives are lived on the dirt\/ which long ago came from the stars\".\u003cstrong\u003e-Joseph Millar\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kristina Hakanson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1646627571\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646627578\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 02\/11\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 42\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.10d","brand":"Kristina Hakanson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992791023871,"sku":"9781646627578","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6f16c3eb-3fb3-42fc-b79f-2327a27a3c9e.jpg?v=1683320813","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-holy-or-the-broken-kristina-hakanson-9781646627578","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}