{"product_id":"when-we-were-water-9781937797119","title":"When We Were Water","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Raúl Sánchez's \u003cem\u003eWhen We Were Water\u003c\/em\u003e, selections from his books \u003cem\u003eAll Our Brown-Skinned Angels \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eWhen There Were No Borders\u003c\/em\u003e travel to us with abundant new work that continues to experiment in forms and shapes, with odes and acrostic poems, visions and flashbacks, elegies and spirit-journeys, but always with humor and human vitality and a golden thread connecting to Latin roots. This work is free and playful, jazzy and up close, exploding with intensity. These are questing poems, liberation poems, devotional\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epoems, ecstatic poems, comic poems, sincere and lived and opening out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Douglas Cole, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Cabin at the End of the World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith his new poems, Sánchez expands his everyman vision by focusing closer to home-he tends the garden, washes the dishes, kills a spider, gazes at the stars, and records his dreams. He sees the people and remembers the history most of us overlook. He immerses himself in the natural world. All the while, Sánchez builds on the ground he has previously staked out-celebrating and memorializing family, moving seamlessly between cultures and languages, and believing in the power of poetry to save us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-John Burgess, author of\u003cem\u003e Punk Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Raúl Sánchez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e World Enough Writers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781937797119","brand":"World Enough Writers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45109297840265,"sku":"9781937797119","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_b1092142-89fb-469a-803e-96943ff2f325.jpg?v=1767074000","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/when-we-were-water-9781937797119","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}