{"product_id":"we-april-ossmann-9781636281728","title":"We: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWe takes an unapologetically spiritual stance in bridging politicized divides, exploring conscious and unconscious prejudices with lyricism, warmth, and self-implicating humor, how we are shaped by and create our nation by how we see ourselves and others.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe poems investigate what unites us; how the personal is political, and the political is personal; changing our perceptions to heal families, friendships, and country of incivility and villainization by practicing greater compassion; trying to see past egos to souls, as \"We\" suggests in conversation with Whitman: \"I celebrate my being, every atom\/of myself and you, lamp and mirror\/of all that is\"; in a new Preamble to the Constitution; and in the feminist \"Peace Hymn for the Republic.\" We begins with a non-partisan vision of soul, and ends driving a rural road at dawn in \"State of the Union Aubade,\" both paeans to our common divinity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e April Ossmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1636281729\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781636281728\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Red Hen Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"April Ossmann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46420482916607,"sku":"9781636281728","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_85a51c36-f5f1-4cf0-9925-afbb9484a3df.jpg?v=1734634763","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/we-april-ossmann-9781636281728","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}