{"product_id":"breath-on-a-coal-paperback","title":"Breath On A Coal - 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\u003eDavid Anthony Martin\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eKeith Waye\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eAnne Haven McDonnell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2021 Halcyon Award from Middle Creek Publishing\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Breath on a Coal\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBreath on a Coal\u003c\/i\u003e, Anne Haven McDonnell writes of what is transient and enduring, with intense focus, lyrical precision, and emotional expanse, in poems that are grounded in landscape and 'inscape.' This is a marvelous debut.-Arthur Sze \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Searingly honest, tenderly lyric, exactingly gorgeous. Reading \u003ci\u003eBreath on a Coal\u003c\/i\u003e, I feel the animal of my body \"owling up\" into awareness, I put my queer antlers on and wear them proudly, I know more deeply how we can be of a place even while admitting that we are \"made of stolen land.\" What a thrilling debut from a poet who writes from a widely-lived and richly-attended life.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Elizabeth Bradfield, author of \u003ci\u003eInterpretive Work\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eApproaching Ice\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Anne Haven McDonnell's sinuous, lush language captures the transient nature of existence in narratives that combine revelatory beauty with compassionate wisdom. Her deep knowledge of the earth-gathered from countless hours listening to what elk on the mountain might be saying, to what salmon in the riverbed might be whispering-teaches us the ways we are transformed by other living beings. \"I put on my antlers in the sun. \/ I walk through the dark gates of the trees\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e-Todd Davis, author of \u003ci\u003eCoffin Honey \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNative Species\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The exquisite poems in Anne Haven McDonnell's \u003ci\u003eBreath on a Coal \u003c\/i\u003eare concerned with wholeness and intimacy and are made out of direct encounter with the more-than-human world with extraordinary sensitivity and directness. A slug \"with its eyes of boneless horns\" glistening along a black road like something \"just born\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\" Later, a \"sunlit blizzard of seed\/blowing off cottonwoods.\" The startling truth of \"I forget sometimes\/how trees look at me with the generosity\/of water.\" One moment, your attention is caught by riveting textures and meticulous observations of the living world; the next, you find yourself exhaling with an achingly clear grief. The poems in this collection breathe close enough to the coals that meaning flares up in every line. And life rises in all its pain and beauty from these pages.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Jenny George, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dream of Reason\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Anne Haven McDonnell's Breath on a Coal is my favorite kind of environmental writing - a writing that does not privilege the human experience in nature over nature itself. The poems in this collection allow the experience of the More-than-Human to mingle with personal poems of love and loss, allowing the natural to remain silent, while reminding us not to forget that silence \"... the whir and clack\/ in the country of insects falling\/\/ to quiet pieces of shell and wing.\/ Piles of carapace mute as sand\/\/ on the damp ground between grasses.\" A completely enjoyable read.\"\u003cbr\u003e-James Thomas Stevens, author of \u003ci\u003eCombing the Snakes from His Hair\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnne Haven McDonnell lives in Santa Fe, NM where the high desert meets the southernmost Rocky Mountains, the Sangre de Cristo range. She teaches as associate professor in English and Creative Writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her poetry has been published in \u003ci\u003eOrion Magazine, The Georgia Review, Narrative Magazine, Nimrod Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, Terrain.org, and elsewhere. Her poems won the fifth annual Terrain.org poetry prize, second place in \u003ci\u003eNarrative Magazine's\u003c\/i\u003e 12th Annual Poetry Contest, and second place for the Gingko international ecopoetry prize. Anne received a special mention for a 2022 Pushcart Prize. Her chapbook \u003ci\u003eLiving with Wolves\u003c\/i\u003e was published with Split Rock Press in fall 2020. Anne Haven holds an MFA from the University of Alaska, Anchorage and has been a writer-in-residence at the Andrews Forest Writers' Residency and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. She helps edit poetry for the journal Terrain.org.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 82\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.17 x 10 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 24, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47350926999801,"sku":"9781734820898","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/cXZxelhCN25GYXljbHhNTmVmNytKZz09.webp?v=1769790594","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/breath-on-a-coal-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}