{"product_id":"tourist-in-the-pure-land-kate-green-9780985981846","title":"Tourist in the Pure Land","description":"\u003cp\u003eKate Green's second full-length book of poetry spans thirty years of writing, an accumulation of lyricism layered with wisdom. Her poems illuminate ordinary, broken things, drawing us toward the transcendent in the everyday. She is a native Minnesota poet, and her verse is grounded in that northern realm. But her work is anything but provincial, evoking as it does images and sensations that resonate within us all. Her recollection of her father's mystical quest for the deep-swimming walleyed pike--\"monstrous lunkers, dying of old age\"--is both amusing and recognizable to anyone with their own obsessions. From lush Caribbean islands to the arid hills of New Mexico to the innermost recesses of her own body, this poet's vibrant voice takes the reader into her own \"pure land.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Question for the Newborn\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eif you think back\u003cbr\u003emaybe it will come to you, \u003cbr\u003ethe ecstatic pain of cells dividing, \u003cbr\u003eface coiling out of the brain, \u003cbr\u003ethe time in the mothery sea\u003cbr\u003ewhen the outside of your face\u003cbr\u003ewas the same as your mind\u003cbr\u003eand your skin was not a shell\u003cbr\u003ebut the inside of a flower\u003cbr\u003ethat in turn was a wound\u003cbr\u003eso open we call it human.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKate Green\u003c\/b\u003e's poetry has received two Bush Foundation Fellowships in Poetry and a Loft McKnight Award. Her novel \u003ci\u003eShattered Moon\u003c\/i\u003e was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award and was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. She has published four other mystery novels and eight books for children. She teaches college writing in Minneapolis, Minnesota.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kate Green\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0985981849\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780985981846\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Holy Cow Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/22\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.24d","brand":"Kate Green","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46372334928127,"sku":"9780985981846","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_39e43d30-9b42-4750-b2ef-3363b6c12e1c.jpg?v=1732725662","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tourist-in-the-pure-land-kate-green-9780985981846","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}