{"product_id":"down-paperback-8","title":"Down - 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\u003eErin Elizabeth Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErin Elizabeth Smith's \u003ci\u003eDown \u003c\/i\u003eis immediately a delight. Refreshing in its take on \u003ci\u003eAlice's Adventures in Wonderland, \u003c\/i\u003ethe reader discovers here the odd world and new experience that Smith draws them \"down\" into. The fall that seems endless takes us into Tennessee, where \"petals doodle lawns \/ like the drawings of girls\" or where \"grey squirrels \/ chase themselves into their trees.\" This isn't exactly Lewis Carroll surrealism, but the narrator of these poems takes us into her incantations and dreamscapes, where suddenly she looks at her spouse lying on the sofa and sees \"a foreign \/\/ thing, a stammering king \/ made kitten in the shaking.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWaking does not necessarily relieve the narrator, nor us. Rather, she writes, \"I am still falling \/ through the slippery leaves \/ every bit of anorexic ice, \/ still waking like a child roused \/ in the backseat, unsure where I am \/ in the fragile, new dark.\" And, like Alice, \u003ci\u003ecuriouser and curiouser, \u003c\/i\u003e the trip down means we may rise up, that \"it can heal us again.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eERIN ELIZABETH SMITH is the Creative Director at the Sundress Academy for the Arts and the Managing Editor of Sundress Publications and The Wardrobe. She is the author of two full-length collections and the editor of two anthologies, \u003ci\u003ePolitical Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNot Somewhere Else But Here: Contemporary Poems on Women and Place\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 16, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353347637497,"sku":"9781622889037","price":29.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/VnMjmGaqgE9781622889037.webp?v=1769824567","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/down-paperback-8","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}