{"product_id":"here-and-elsewhere-collected-poems-9798952110021","title":"Here and Elsewhere: Collected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eSandra McGarry writes poetry, she tells us at the outset, because buttons have holes and so does history. \u003cem\u003eHere and Elsewhere\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection built from those small, durable objects-a grandmother's button box, a dented fruitcake tin, a whistling kettle, a screen door, a shoebox of someone else's photographs found at a garage sale-and from what they hold: a childhood interrupted when both parents died within 22 months of each other, a fourth-grade classroom, a marriage, the long life that followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems are quilt blocks, each one a square of a particular day, arranged so that the years show through. They begin in the East, by the ocean, and end in the mountains of northern Colorado, where geese rise off a pond at first light and the world, as one poem admits, is fracturing in places the poet can't even name. What holds against that fracturing is attention: to a lemon, to a puddle, to the way a name said aloud brings a whole house back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a cover photograph by Pat Slentz, this is a collection from a poet who has spent a lifetime looking closely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sandra McGarry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Panhandle Creek Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798952110021","brand":"Panhandle Creek Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48531930611849,"sku":"9798952110021","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_374efa37-9eda-477d-89bc-b4286218525b.jpg?v=1791326114","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/here-and-elsewhere-collected-poems-9798952110021","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}