{"product_id":"welcome-to-guardian-angel-school-jody-winer-9781646621415","title":"Welcome to Guardian Angel School","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Finishing Line Press 2019 Chapbook Competition, this sharply observant, powerful poetry collection explores the mysteries of connection and loss: the ways we co-exist, love, and leave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeaping and swerving, Jody Winer's poems move across centuries and species: from an alligator farm lake to the moon's dry seas, from a stalled subway car to a 7-Eleven parking lot, from the garden of Eden to a burnt apple orchard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWelcome to guardian angel school: \"Expect scant correlation between love and safety.\" The nation is haunted by \"flickering strip malls and the Rust Belt's forlorn fortresses.\" We are expert at denial: \"Though we know what's missing\/our eyes still see complete trees. To live\/we self-deceive.\" Grief \"makes you write\/your dead friend's name on the grocery list.\" What to do? These poems implore us to be curious, ask questions, pay attention. As any student should.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBig answers are scarce, but small signs of hope abound. Light shines through dark times: \"infrared visible ultraviolet X\/raiser of spirits.... our daily bread sign of warm bed\/and someone home.\" Death looms, but so does love: \"As hours kill, chimes make fireworks.\" Imagination transforms: \"There's still time.\/No end to invented light.\" So why not \"Picture a Mount Rushmore for Women\"?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jody Winer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1646621417\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646621415\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Finishing Line Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/07\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 46\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.11d","brand":"Jody Winer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43942475301119,"sku":"9781646621415","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_a2135302-75ce-4531-b043-9dcf00453a75.jpg?v=1681492594","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/welcome-to-guardian-angel-school-jody-winer-9781646621415","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}