{"product_id":"the-thicket-poems-9780822966647","title":"The Thicket: Poems","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Thicket \u003c\/i\u003eopens into intimate encounters with the more-than-human world--rivers, birds, stones--and with a \"you\" that is not a person, necessarily, but also not not a person: maybe God, maybe an aspect of the self, maybe neither or both. Often speaking of\/to the small or overlooked (weeds by a roadside, an abandoned silo), the poems orient themselves toward edges, transitional spaces like the one where fields shift into woods. Where does one body stop? \u003ci\u003eThe Thicket\u003c\/i\u003e takes an interest in becoming, one thing flowing into something else. \u003cb\u003eExcerpt from \"At Cape Henlopen\"\u003c\/b\u003e All night wind insists in the trees, its unsteady hush funneling us down into sleep under the tender shelter the oaks, even leafless, make--all night their trunks creak and sigh and speak. \u003ci\u003eSpeak\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eto me\u003c\/i\u003e--I think the word \u003ci\u003eprotect\u003c\/i\u003e until its edges dissolve, inside the tent that wraps us like another, thinner skin, rocked and chastened by the wind that doesn't cease . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kasey Jueds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Pitt Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822966647","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42794540204169,"sku":"9780822966647","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_98c25d10-4c99-4c26-9f06-1551bc6583d2.jpg?v=1721109004","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-thicket-poems-9780822966647","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}