{"product_id":"grief-for-the-green-that-was","title":"Grief for the Green That Was","description":"\u003cp\u003eMoving tenderly across memory, continents, and literary forms, Jacob Shores-Argüello's tightly woven cross-genre collection evolves a private family bereavement into an exploration of collective ecological grief. Following the death of his mother, the speaker navigates between his Costa Rican heritage and his Oklahoma upbringing, eventually arriving at something like healing on the banks of New Zealand's Whanganui River--the first river in the world granted legal personhood. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStructured around a Spanish nursery rhyme, \u003ci\u003eGrief for the Green That Was\u003c\/i\u003e finds solace in the prospect of citizenship for a more-than-human world, a possibility it approaches through perspectival shifts and innovative forms--including footnoted poems, hybrid fiction, and an experimental choose-your-own-adventure sequence--that overturn lyric and storytelling conventions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA book about what we inherit and what we leave behind, both in families and in landscapes, \u003ci\u003eGrief for the Green That Was\u003c\/i\u003e examines how climate change affects not just the physical world but also our emotional and spiritual relationships to place. Here Shores-Argüello creates a new language for twenty-first-century grief that refuses to separate the personal from the planetary.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jacob Shores-Argüello","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44515851763754,"sku":"9780816556281","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/imageloader_b94e6f68-c9d5-4ec7-98cd-efc9973c9c63.jpg?v=1782704041","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/grief-for-the-green-that-was","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}