{"product_id":"the-resilience-of-flowers-nancy-kassell-9781962847469","title":"The Resilience of Flowers","description":"\u003cp\u003eThey were little girls, the age of flowers, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esaid their mother Asma, who found\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand buried them herself after the bombing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo perish so before full bloom\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGaza. 2025. Asma does for her daughters the only thing she can do now, bury them. A girl raped in Nigeria, a girl displaced in Ukraine, a woman poet arrested by Nazis in Warsaw 1942. The United States 2025. Recurring cycles of conflict and war seem so alike at times that they become almost ahistorical. It is women, uniquely bonded to nature, who do most of the work of repair and recovery. The work of continuity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut just who are we humans, who ricochet between destroying and creating? In a poem about children's first, stick-figure drawings (Ground) I write, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is how we are made\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhat it is to look human\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethey are telling us...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe skeleton shows through.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI think a lot about the skeleton of human nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd so, the arts arm themselves. In what she describes as portraits of people, the painter Alice Neel asks, We are all creatures in a way, aren't we? (Nude Self-Portrait). The quest for a common humanity continues. Meanwhile, historical time, like nature, may be circular, but each individual life is linear, and in this chapbook, I honor two people I have lost, my companion, an historian, and my daughter, a filmmaker. We inhabit time and nature and within these spaces try\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto know: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho or what needs care and what kind\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho gives it, how it is given and received.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nancy Kassell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1962847462\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781962847469\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e DOS Madres Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 54\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.13d","brand":"Nancy Kassell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440800674047,"sku":"9781962847469","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_06bda186-0769-4277-abc5-155294f8cba2.jpg?v=1777184895","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-resilience-of-flowers-nancy-kassell-9781962847469","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}