{"product_id":"second-story-poems","title":"Second Story: Poems","description":"When her Florida apartment is damaged by the ferocity of Hurricane Irma, Duhamel turns to Dante andterza rima, reconstructing the form into the long poem \"Terza Irma.\" Throughout the book she investigates our near-catastrophic ecological and political moment, hyperaware of her own complicity, resistance, and agency. She writes odes to her favorite uncle--who was \"green\" before it was a hashtag--and Mother Nature via a retro margarine commercial. She writes letters to her failing memory as well as to America's amnesia. With fear of the water below and a burglar who enters through her second story window, she bravely faces the story under the story, the second story we often neglect to tell. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eExcerpt from \"Terza Irma\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI hoist my suitcase up the stairs, brace\u003cbr\u003emyself as I open the door, slip \u003cbr\u003eon water in the hall, and come face \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eto face with my books, the white shelves drip-\u003cbr\u003eping. I pull down Dante--the pages\u003cbr\u003eheavy, wavy as potato chips-- \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ethen pat down the walls, trying to gauge \u003cbr\u003ewhere the leak's come from--the apartment \u003cbr\u003eabove? My ceiling's dappled with beige \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eclouds I'm afraid will burst, a descent\u003cbr\u003eof more indoor rain. I make my way\u003cbr\u003eto the condo office, to lament \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ethe havoc, ask for some help. My neigh-\u003cbr\u003ebors are in varied states of panic\u003cbr\u003eand shock, agitated castaways.","brand":"Denise Duhamel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793304944682,"sku":"9780822966531","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/second-story-poems-4473079.jpg?v=1762151254","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/second-story-poems","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}