{"product_id":"the-stranger-i-become-katharine-coles-9781885983862","title":"The Stranger I Become: On Walking, Looking, and Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Coles is a true original.\" ―Tom Sleigh\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Stranger I Become\u003c\/em\u003e probes the permeable boundary between inner life and outer, thought and action, science and experience. Poet Katharine Coles begins her lyric essays with a meditation on \"the urge to move beyond, to understand myself as a stranger, \u003cem\u003eestranged\u003c\/em\u003e.\" The essays travel, always on foot, from Coles's home with its kept and wild birds, into the canyon her home overlooks, itself populated with creatures ranging from voles to owls, moose, bobcats, and coyotes. From there, always looking, always walking, in the company of the words that move her, they traverse her neighborhood and distant places in this country and the world. All along, they consider the poetry that inhabits her: the winged creatures of Dickinson, Ashbery's \"reflections,\" Keats's \"irritable reaching,\" Anne Carson's ever-unreachable apples, and more. Taken together, they make up what Lance Olsen calls \"a poetics of the vivid.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Katharine Coles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1885983867\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781885983862\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Turtle Point Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/08\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.90h x 4.70w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2021 pg. 13","brand":"Katharine Coles","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44047549300991,"sku":"9781885983862","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_88bd8c83-9d3a-4c5c-8db2-96acb26c452e.jpg?v=1684990849","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-stranger-i-become-katharine-coles-9781885983862","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}