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Through language delicious and disruptive, the body and its many failings are compared to the natural world--how it protects and betrays us, nurtures us with hope and herniates our hearts at the turn of seasons, kills its leaves and splits its trees: '... the botanist said the seeds will sprout, but might \/ never bloom', the author discloses when trying for another child, before the title poem grieves another baby's loss while still inside its mother: \"I know already, if it does not pass-- \/ slip into the toilet to be flushed, \/ they will lace my veins with a syringe \/of dreams and clean house.\" What we know of the unspeakable nature of grief is made manifest in this collection, and laces our veins with visions of what we cannot conjure in our own lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Amy Strauss Friedman, \u003c\/strong\u003e author of \u003cem\u003eGathered Bones are Known to Wander\u003c\/em\u003e and the forthcoming \u003cem\u003eThe Eggshell Skull Rule\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Megan Merchant","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44103407534122,"sku":"9781941783528","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/grief-flowers-9266827.jpg?v=1771573770"},{"product_id":"the-darks-humming","title":"The Dark's Humming","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe poems in The Dark's Humming find countless ways to settle in your bones, and then in the deepest parts of the psyche. 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