{"product_id":"you-cannot-shoot-a-poem-9780807169063","title":"You Cannot Shoot a Poem","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eYou Cannot Shoot a Poem\u003c\/i\u003e, Paula Closson Buck offers sharp-witted, deeply felt, and skillfully structured poems. With clear and powerful imagery, these poems reveal an urgent need to rethink the way we interact with each other and the planet. Touching on racism, environmental exploitation, and failed political diplomacy, Closson Buck relies on the ability of poetry to enter otherwise hidden or forbidden territories. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eClosson Buck transports readers to the abandoned city of Varosha, Cyprus, with its history of interethnic violence; to Venice, Italy, as the water in the Lagoon rises; to Niagara Falls, New York, where she sets a personal moral compass against environmental degradation and religious zeal. She examines the decline of these cities with precise attention to the lives caught in the current. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSometimes satiric and sometimes elegiac, \u003ci\u003eYou Cannot Shoot a Poem\u003c\/i\u003e inhabits a troubled world while inspiring confidence in the human ability to create change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paula Closson Buck\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/05\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.18d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807169063","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45133444677769,"sku":"9780807169063","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_e7725173-3a17-40ea-88b7-3f11f5ee4f91.jpg?v=1767678911","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/you-cannot-shoot-a-poem-9780807169063","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}