{"product_id":"dangerous-bodies-paperback","title":"Dangerous Bodies - 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\u003eCharlotte Gould Warren\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith deceptively pellucid language, \u003ci\u003eDangerous Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e offers\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e in poem after poem\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e precise, jewel-like crystallizations of understanding that illuminate the craggy and often harrowing emotional terrain of a family gone wrong\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e Out of abandonment and incest, the wounded child turns to the long building of a self she can rightfully claim as her own. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Knowing that \"Closeness and distance \/ are all that we can be sure of\", Warren successfully navigates the road from indictment of her father --\"All your life you were generous and ruined, \/ and you took us with you.\" -- to the astonishingly merciful \"It's no one's fault, this life.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In meeting up with a small shorebird that regularly travels 20,000 miles a year from Africa to Alaska and the Arctic, Warren finds a perfect analog to her own poems: \"song precariously perched; witness \/ against the barrens of space\". Through lovingly learning the names and life patterns of creatures and plants native to her part of the world, she shows us how we, too, can more fully anchor ourselves in a fundamentally nourishing reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHARLOTTE GOULD WARREN'S poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eGandhi's Lap, \u003c\/i\u003e won the Washington Prize and publication by \u003ci\u003eWord Works\u003c\/i\u003e in Washington, D.C. Previous manuscripts have been finalists in the Phillip Levine and Ashland national contests. Her poems have appeared on Seattle buses as well as in journals such as \u003ci\u003eOrion, Calyx, The Hawai'i Pacific Review, The Louisville Review, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eKansas Quarterly \u003c\/i\u003eWarren received her MFA in Writing from Vermont College, and taught part time at Peninsula College in Washington State. She and her husband have called the Olympic Peninsula home for over fifty years, have two grown sons and two grandchildren.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 94\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.25 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 07, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47225930055929,"sku":"9781622881390","price":23.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/WXF5cHBFMWlkWXlIZGZaR3pxeWNxZz09.webp?v=1768252569","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/dangerous-bodies-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}