{"product_id":"view-from-true-north-sara-henning-9780809336852","title":"View from True North","description":"Winner, High Plains Book Award Poetry, 2019 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Winner, George Bogin Memorial Award, 2019 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Finalist, Julie Suk Award, 2018 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In these edgy poems of witness, Sara Henning's speaker serves as both conduit and curator of the destructive legacies of alcoholism and multigenerational closeting. Considering the impact of addiction and sexual repression in the family and on its individual members, Henning explores with deft compassion the psychological ramifications of traumas across multiple generations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With the starling as an unspoken trope for victims who later perpetuate the cycle of abuse, suffering and shame became forces dangerous enough to down airliners. The strands Henning weaves--violent relationships, the destructive effects of long-term closeting, and the pall that shame casts over entire lives--are hauntingly epiphanic. And yet these feverish lyric poems find a sharp beauty in their grieving, where \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e covers and hidden erotic photographs turn into talismans of regret and empathy. After the revelation that her deceased grandfather was a closeted homosexual \"who lived two lives,\" Henning considers the lasting effects of shame in regard to the silence, oppression, and erasure of sexual identity, issues that are of contemporary concern to the LGBTQIA community. Even through \"the dark \/ earth encircling us,\" Henning's speaker wonders if there isn't some way out of a place \"where my body \/ is just another smoke-stung \/ dirge of survival,\" if, in the end, love won't be victorious. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Part eyewitness testimony, part autoethnography, this book of memory and history, constantly seeking and yearning, is full of poems \"too brutal and strange to suffer \/  their] way anywhere but home.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sara Henning\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0809336855\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780809336852\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Southern Illinois University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/22\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.30d","brand":"Sara Henning","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995611431167,"sku":"9780809336852","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5c0692fb-9fbd-4834-a9c9-c89eb3a104f2.jpg?v=1683336792","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/view-from-true-north-sara-henning-9780809336852","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}