{"product_id":"over-here-9781943667239","title":"Over Here","description":"In Over Here, Alan Gillis reveals surreal intersections of mind and world, neither of which are stable: \" For the mind is the sea, \/ the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth \/ moving and suspended until it's not.\" If Gillis's poems feel like a high-wire act, they remain grounded, conscious of the threat of a brutal fall. Violence is often at the edges, as are anxieties of climate change, the staggering death toll of the pandemic, toxic masculinity, and internet trolls. Still, humor is a staple in this volume: \" my head and backbone \/ through demonic consubstantiation, \/ are now seventy-five percent smartphone.\" Equally attentive to pastoral possibility and our digital reality, to poetic form and even the poetic use of emojis, Gillis answers angst with an abundant hope-- in language, in nature, and their intermingling intricacies: It's hard to be anything other than a doomster, but we're lifted by the swooshed pines of this woodland, in and out of our minds, its comedy of squirrels, moss-bed squelch, ladybird throng.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan Gillis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wake Forest University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781943667239","brand":"Wake Forest University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47663570944137,"sku":"9781943667239","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_c95fcfb0-22f8-4248-a637-1b18c632f740.jpg?v=1784608911","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/over-here-9781943667239","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}