{"product_id":"the-words-we-do-not-steve-brisendine-9781952411526","title":"The Words We Do Not Have","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn The Words We Do Not Have\u003c\/em\u003e, Steve Brisendine brings experience into sharp focus-a road trip with his son, evenings spent playing pool, an abused childhood classmate-along with meditative explorations of life, death, aging, and faith. The author employs as a title for each poem an unusual foreign word (along with its definition), a strategy that unifies the collection, while also yielding delightful and unexpected trajectories as the poems unfold. Brisendine's imaginative lexicon offers us a space where \"a heart has\/ spilled itself, where words bloomed\/ into something past words.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -Janice Northerns, author of\u003cem\u003e Some Electric Hum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We have enough wind in Kansas,\" Steve Brisendine opens his excellent new book. \"When you \/ walk into it, it pulls.\" Beginning with the language of wind, Brisbane reveals a dark world through a series of tongues. In \"Mokita,\" a classmate is abused and silent, eventually dead. We learn the title's Kilivila meaning: \"something everyone knows but no one talks about.\" Outlining a \"slippery downhill way,\" these grave, sometimes minutial poems (as in \"Qarba,\" the appearance of white hairs in a man's beard) highlight how life gives us \"hope of reunion . . . but also the knowledge that such might never happen. Dark, global, nuanced in how it reveals a gritty world.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -Tyler Robert Sheldon, Editor-in-Chief of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eMockingHeart Review\u003c\/em\u003e and author of \u003cem\u003eConsolation \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Prize\u003c\/em\u003e (Finishing Line Press, 2018)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steve Brisendine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1952411521\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781952411526\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Spartan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.20d","brand":"Steve Brisendine","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43993045565695,"sku":"9781952411526","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_839f31a0-03af-43c2-a6ac-f7d66dc21aeb.jpg?v=1683322221","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-words-we-do-not-steve-brisendine-9781952411526","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}