{"product_id":"the-channel-poems-9781324130383","title":"The Channel: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn her electrifying fourth collection, Jana Prikryl harnesses the power of \u003cem\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/em\u003e to look back at her family story and see more clearly our own mad kings, our hunger for authority. Listening for Cordelia as a dissenter banished from home, Prikryl finds that outside her native tragedy the silent woman has more to say. The centuries and settings molt from the Bronze Age to Jacobean England to the Cold War to the digital now, as her voice pushes itself into evasive maneuvers, urgent digressions, bad jokes, worse puns, and desperate expressions of love, and she struggles to escape the roles written for her. What new language, what new reality--these poems ask--is available beyond the borders of any given role?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eFrom \"Insomnia at Anchor\" \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e... the meter tells me who I was\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe corridor I paced as Antony\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFriends, best hour of school, can't teach the fates\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethey couldn't worry us, reading reassured\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea book but carried out your feelings, ferried\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eaway from home, amazing how stubbornly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewe worried wrong, the fates will see you now\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elike rushes wetly cut from streams and tipped\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein flame, or when that girl became a reed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis there a song that won't make use of her\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jana Prikryl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.5lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324130383","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48794060849289,"sku":"9781324130383","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_07dea9c8-137b-48b9-a0f8-c076110a671a.jpg?v=1793145222","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-channel-poems-9781324130383","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}