{"product_id":"boats-in-the-attic-paperback-2","title":"Boats in the Attic - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlison Powell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoats in the Attic\u003c\/i\u003e is a sweeping, poignant exploration of what it means to be an individual and, in particular, what it means to be a parent of young children, in our current time of crisis. Errands must be run, the radio plays, and the child wants the birthday girl's balloon--all while sea levels are rising and wild wolves roam the acres of Chernobyl, \"developing a cryptography to a century \/ to which we are not invited.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this dynamic collection, Powell intersperses lyric flight and prose fragments with metacommentary, nuance, and a beguiling sense of humor. At the same time, these pieces are securely tethered to the material difficulties of being a human in today's world, where a child must participate in a lockdown drill at his preschool and a dying woman turns to Reddit to fund her efforts to be cryogenetically preserved. Conversations between the speaker and her children trace the beauty and terror of existential indeterminacy: \"We begin to consider other planets -- \/ Will they have us?\" In a long piece titled \"Book of Revelation,\" the speaker dreams that \"below the bed \/ is an encyclopedia of lost things,\" a phrase that captures the collection's wide range and its categorizing eye. Powell turns to astronomy, \u003ci\u003eAlice in Wonderland\u003c\/i\u003e, Millerism, and culinary cruelty, with a uniquely celebratory and elegiac voice, all in an effort to understand the depths, and effects, of the human appetite for pleasure, power, and escape.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlison Powell \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of English at Oakland University. Her other collections include a chapbook titled \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Perpetuation\u003c\/i\u003e and a collection of poetry titled\u003ci\u003e On the Desire to Levitate\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePBS NewsHour\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003epoets.org\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Public Space\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMichigan Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 102\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 20, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47347140428025,"sku":"9781531500856","price":23.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/U2ZJeVJrVlI5b3ZnQ0ZXTWtOS0Fpdz09_2f5ec0b6-7e50-47b5-83e7-903dc7f6baf0.webp?v=1769757843","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/boats-in-the-attic-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}