{"product_id":"wyrd-bird-claire-marie-stancek-9781632430847","title":"Wyrd] Bird","description":"In times fraught with ecological and individual loss, Claire Marie Stancek's \u003ci\u003ewyrd] bird \u003c\/i\u003egrapples with both the necessity and apparent impossibility of affirming mystical experience. It is at once a book-length lyric essay on the 12th-century German mystic Hildegard of Bingen, a dream journal, a fragmentary notebook, a collection of poems, and a scrapbook of photographic ephemera. Stancek follows Hildegard as she guides the poet through an underworld of climate catastrophe and political violence populated by literary, mythical, and historical figures from Milton's Eve to the biblical Satan to Keats's hand. The book deconstructs a Western tradition of good and evil by rereading, cross-questioning, and upsetting some of that tradition's central poetic texts. By refusing and confusing dualistic logic, \u003ci\u003ewyrd] bird\u003c\/i\u003e searches for an expression of visionary experience that remains rooted in the body, a mode of questioning that echoes out into further questioning, and a cry of elegiac loss that grips, stubbornly, onto love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Claire Marie Stancek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1632430843\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781632430847\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Omnidawn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/07\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2020 pg. 89","brand":"Claire Marie Stancek","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43978494902527,"sku":"9781632430847","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_077dfb49-8f84-459c-985c-13395977eeda.jpg?v=1683241856","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/wyrd-bird-claire-marie-stancek-9781632430847","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}