{"product_id":"cleaving-the-clouds-paperback","title":"Cleaving the Clouds - 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\u003eMargaret Anne Kean\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in Margaret Kean's \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eCleaving the Clouds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eare simply beautiful. The work here is grief work, but I can't help imagining beauty on top of death, in layers, like Mark Doty's quote, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere are buried cities\/one beneath the other.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThese are lyrically resonate poems that refuse to filter out the natural beauty of the world in the midst of grief-there are white cockatoos, carillon bells, jack rabbits, and barren trees. As if to say, grief with its arms crossed, stubbornly remains in this world, entangled with the beauty within the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003eVictoria Chang\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eOBIT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eCleaving the Clouds, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e Margaret Kean deftly explores the many facets of a 'grief [that] keeps interrupting.' Her poems 'speak in gentle voices, ' strong yet quiet, reverent yet contemplative. They weave the spiritual and the mundane into images rich with sensory observations as the speaker navigates the loss of her loved ones. Kean delves into the deepest recesses of raw human emotions, inviting us to reflect on our own mortality, to sit with 'the impossibility of our yearning.' From the hummingbird that thumps against glass, to the warmth of a candle flame, and the breaths we all share, these poems ask us to pause and process, to partake in the sacred act of honoring the lives of those we've loved and lost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003eLeonora Simonovis\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eStudy of the Raft\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Kean's inaugural collection, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eCleaving the Clouds, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003estuns with its truths about grief and death. Kean's poems explore grief as a mental wilderness inhabited by a lone coyote's\u003cbr\u003eprimordial howl at dawn. Harnessing the power of that inhuman howl gives Kean the strength to witness and record both of her parents' illnesses and deaths. She shares raw but tender final interactions with each parent-her mother's last \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ethirst for air, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e her father, bereft of speech. Like lightning splitting dark clouds, Kean's talent emerges like \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ea magician [who] weaves flames with her fingers\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eCleaving the Clouds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis an open-eyed, brave tribute to art as redemption in the face of loss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003eJulia Caroline Knowlton, \u003c\/b\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 54\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.13 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 25, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353900368121,"sku":"9781639804597","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/7CCn8-4bsC9781639804597.webp?v=1769828757","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/cleaving-the-clouds-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}