{"product_id":"the-star-cabins-sara-wainscott","title":"The Star Cabins","description":"\u003cp\u003eSara Wainscott's \u003ci\u003eThe Star Cabins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis a profound exploration of the self's melt through language acquisition, pattern, and loss. The speaker of this expansive long poem morphs between selves: writer, mother, reader, daughter, drifter, lover, and witness while questioning the limits and obligations of each. \"Too long alone an I becomes a you \/ Positioned on a high dive,\" Wainscott writes in the book's pressurized couplets that balance a tender vulnerability alongside wolfish, piercing ferocity. \u003ci\u003eThe Star Cabins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis a sonically brilliant and formally daring inquiry into death and what it means to accompany the dying, to endure absence, and to recognize \"A good life that's slow \/ And over at the right time \/\/ Belongs not even to the clouds.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product__block product__description type-body-regular rte\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSara Wainscott\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the author of Insecurity System (Persea, 2020) and The Star Cabins (Rescue Press, 2026). She lives in Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product__block product__description type-body-regular rte\"\u003e\"Since I first read\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Star Cabins\u003c\/i\u003e, it's been knocking around my head. 'Time is the beauty \/ People attribute to the natural world,' Sara Wainscott writes. I think this musical book will keep knocking around my head for all time, or at least for as long as I have a head. Wainscott drops her 'I' through this book like a lost airpod bouncing loose around the floor of the world: 'A stranger eyes me while he sings \/\/ Ain't no sunshine when she's gone and \/ Inside that moment I stay sometimes.' She found a new way to sing, and if you like music—even if you don't think you like poetry—you will love this book. You will love the way it sings.\" — \u003cb\u003eLUCY BIEDERMAN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Reading\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Star Cabins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis like watching life flash before your eyes, except instead of your own life, signaling your death, it is Sara Wainscott's life, and it makes you feel alive.\" — \u003cb\u003eJESSCIA LASER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Early in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Star Cabins\u003c\/i\u003e, we realize: 'You and I are \/\/ Constrained by being \/ Alive.' Such are the astonishing paradoxes in Sara Wainscott's alchemical book-length poem. Written largely in unpunctuated couplets and loose meter,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Star Cabins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003estellifies the ordinary, suspending time in an act of simultaneity. The result is a singular work both weary and funny, jumbled yet precise, spare but overbrimming. If F. Scott Fitzgerald was right—that the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to function while holding two opposing ideas in the mind—then Wainscott is a genius.\" — \u003cb\u003eJames Shea\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Sara Wainscott","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44722373328938,"sku":"9798988683957","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/imageloader_353216fc-b336-492e-8780-706244691cef.jpg?v=1787548360","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/the-star-cabins-sara-wainscott","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}