{"product_id":"weather-eye-open-13-sarah-gridley-9780520242937","title":"Weather Eye Open: Poems Volume 13","description":"The windmill's labor is contingent upon the weather, upon what air masses, at any given time, overlie its landscape. Anticipatory in mood, \u003ci\u003eWeather Eye Open \u003c\/i\u003eadopts the emblem of the windmill, seeking what Merleau-Ponty calls the \"inspiration and expiration of Being.\" The windmill serves as analogue to the perceiving subject, to the poet, whose consciousness, though rooted and partial, is yet always receptive to being energized, turned. Like open sails, the perceiver ushers the weather indoors, converting one motion, the wind, to another, the grinding burrstones. The poems in this collection pursue a similar transmutation through language, a staying open to its various weather (and whether) systems. For Sarah Gridley, language strikes at the \"X\" of experience: part presence and part absence, part spirit and part matter, part home and part homesickness, part harnessed and part wild. In the face of such weather, the stance of the poet is both rapacious and passive, searching and struck still.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Gridley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520242939\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520242937\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.26h x 5.60w x 0.45d","brand":"Sarah Gridley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43919943958783,"sku":"9780520242937","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_664bc283-735b-4ac3-938e-d3367c3f73c8.jpg?v=1680812771","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/weather-eye-open-13-sarah-gridley-9780520242937","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}