{"product_id":"west-portal-benjamin-gucciardi-9781647690403","title":"West Portal","description":"Winner of the 2020 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWest Portal\u003c\/i\u003e is the name of the neighborhood in San Francisco, California, where poet Benjamin Gucciardi grew up. It is also one of the names of the Pillars of Heracles--the entryway to the afterworld. Drawing on William Carlos Williams's assertion that \"the local is the only thing that is universal,\" \u003ci\u003eWest Portal \u003c\/i\u003einvestigates the Bay Area's urban and rural landscapes along with the memories and people that reside there. Interweaving the narrative of the death of the poet's sister with the environmental and socioeconomic realities of the current moment, the poems in \u003ci\u003eWest Portal\u003c\/i\u003e illuminate the experience of loss, and the attempt to create meaning in the wake of devastation. Through poems that are prayerful, observant, elegiac, pained, dreamlike, philosophical, and compassionate, the book asks: What do we consider holy? What is virtue? What should any of us value about our relationship to place or our relationship with each other?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benjamin Gucciardi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1647690404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781647690403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Utah Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/30\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.80w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/19\/2021 pg. 188","brand":"Benjamin Gucciardi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44049762713855,"sku":"9781647690403","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d97407db-035f-41be-9d61-9e9ccb083fe9.jpg?v=1685003320","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/west-portal-benjamin-gucciardi-9781647690403","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}