{"product_id":"whale-fall-david-baker-9781324074687","title":"Whale Fall: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed as an essential voice of the American Midwest, David Baker expands both his environment and his form in his eleventh collection. \u003cem\u003eWhale Fall\u003c\/em\u003e is about time, measured in the wingbeats of a hummingbird or the epochs of geological change, and about place, whether a backyard in Ohio or the slopes of a melting glacier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the exquisite, musical title poem, a deft hybrid of eco-poetic alarm and intimate narrative, Baker transports us to the deep sea as a single gray whale carcass falls, decays, and is reinhabited by a cosmos of teeming lives. Among the strands of ocean health, microplastics, and related calamities of human disregard, the poet weaves in a personal story of chronic illness. The result is a stirring, confident work, astonishing in its emotional acuity and lyric range.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach poem in \u003cem\u003eWhale Fall\u003c\/em\u003e is an echolocation, emitting its music to situate itself among others in the vastness of the world. Amidst climate change and catastrophe, as amidst a blooming viburnum or a viral disease, these poems send their songs across empty spaces of a line, a page, or a continent, to see who is out there, moving in the depths of being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Baker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 132407468X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324074687\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/12\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.24h x 6.06w x 0.32d","brand":"David Baker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44181514092799,"sku":"9781324074687","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_03d31191-e80f-4ea7-b75c-beae310bae00.jpg?v=1690260863","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/whale-fall-david-baker-9781324074687","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}