{"product_id":"the-messenger-stephanie-pippin-9781609381646","title":"The Messenger","description":"In thrilling poems of metamorphosis and birth, death and dissolution, Stephanie Pippin's debut collection returns us to a world unshorn of wildness. Delivering accident and hunger, love and grief, nature in these poems is beautiful and brutal, \"a hellish magnificence\" that both invites and denies the meanings we project onto it. Refusing the domesticated comfort of our usual myths, Pippin reminds us of our place as creatures among others in a world where \"what isn't dead \/ is dying,\" and where the thrill of predatory flight commingles with the desperation of the prey. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis mesmerizing and astonishingly assured collection offers a message as harrowing as it is essential. Faced with the hard master of necessity--\"angel stinking of his own \/ excitement\"--and bare before what Mallarmé called \"the horror of the forest,\" we are helpless, finally, to do anything to save what we love. Our sole task, these poems insist, is to look on while we can, and to love harder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephanie Pippin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1609381645\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781609381646\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 70\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.00w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2013 pg. 85","brand":"Stephanie Pippin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48088639045887,"sku":"9781609381646","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8a9ce02d-1688-476f-8412-0ee1e6e998e7.jpg?v=1769105861","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-messenger-stephanie-pippin-9781609381646","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}