{"title":"Barbara Kingsolver","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"another-america-otra-america","title":"Another America\/Otra America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a bestselling and beloved author, an intensely personal collection of poetry \"rich with political and human resonance\"\u003c\/b\u003e (\u003cb\u003eUrsula K. LeGuin)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore becoming the bestselling author we know today, Barbara Kingsolver, as a new college graduate in search of adventure, moved to the borderlands of Tucson, Arizona. What she found, she says, was \"another America.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterweaving past political events, from the US-backed dictatorships in South America to the government surveillance carried out in the Reagan years, Kingsolver's early poetry expands into a broader examination of the racism, discrimination, and immigration system she witnessed at close range. The poems coalesce in a record of her emerging adulthood, in which she confronts the hypocrisy of the national myth of America--a confrontation that would come to shape her not only as an artist, but as a citizen. With a new introduction from Kingsolver that reflects on the current border crisis, \u003ci\u003eAnother \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerica \u003c\/i\u003eis a striking portrait of a country deeply divided between those with privilege and those without, and the lives of urgent purpose that may be carved out in between.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barbara Kingsolver","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43812537106474,"sku":"9781541600386","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/another-americaotra-america-8867991.jpg?v=1762945288"},{"product_id":"how-to-fly-in-ten-thousand-easy-lessons-poetry","title":"How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons): Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A gorgeous collection. . . . These poems unplug from TV and social media and the outrage of the moment and turn our attention to the immediate and the everlasting, human intimacy and the power and mystery of nature.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e--\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTampa Bay Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this intimate collection, Barbara Kingsolver, beloved author of \u003cem\u003eThe Poisonwood Bible\u003c\/em\u003e and the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003cem\u003eDemon Copperhead, \u003c\/em\u003eand recipient of numerous literary awards including the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguish Contribution to American Letters, trains her eye on the everyday and the metaphysical in poems that are beautifully crafted, emotionally rich, and luminous\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her second poetry collection, Kingsolver offers reflections on the practical, the spiritual, and the wild. She begins with \"how to\" poems addressing everyday matters such as being hopeful, married, divorced; shearing a sheep; praying to unreliable gods; doing nothing at all; and of course, flying. Next come rafts of poems about making peace (or not) with the complicated bonds of friendship and family, and making peace (or not) with death, in the many ways it finds us. Some poems reflect on the redemptive powers of art and poetry itself; others consider where everything begins. Closing the book are poems that celebrate natural wonders--birdsong and ghost-flowers, ruthless ants, clever shellfish, coral reefs, deadly deserts, and thousand-year-old beech trees--all speaking to the daring project of belonging to an untamed world beyond ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAltogether, these are poems about transcendence: finding breath and lightness in life and the everyday acts of living. It's all terribly easy and, as the title suggests, not entirely possible. Or at least, it is never quite finished. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barbara Kingsolver","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43812541988906,"sku":"9780062993083","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/how-to-fly-in-ten-thousand-easy-lessons-poetry-7631285.jpg?v=1762945288"}],"url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/collections\/barbara-kingsolver.oembed","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}