{"product_id":"the-blue-mimes","title":"The Blue Mimes","description":"\u003cp\u003eSara Daniele Rivera's award-winning debut is a collection of sprawling elegy in the face of catastrophic grief, both personal and public. From the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election through the COVID-19 pandemic, these poems memorialize lost loved ones and meditate on the not-yet gone--all while the wider-world loses its sense of connection, safety, and assurance. In those years of mourning, \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Mimes\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of grounding and heartening resolve, even and especially in the states of uncertainty that define the human condition. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRivera's poems travel between Albuquerque, Lima, and Havana, deserts and coastlines and cities, Spanish and English--between modes of language and culture that shape the contours of memory and expose the fault lines of the self. In those inevitable fractures, with honest, off-kilter precision, Rivera vividly renders the ways in which the bereft become approximations of themselves as a means of survival, mimicking the stilted actions of the people they once were. Where speech is not enough, this astonishing collection finds a radical practice in continued searching, endurance without promise--the rifts in communion and incomplete pictures that afford the possibility to heal.","brand":"Sara Daniele Rivera","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":68099334242455,"sku":"9781644452790","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/the-blue-mimes-2436133.jpg?v=1792598658","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/the-blue-mimes","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}