{"product_id":"earth-again-made-in-michigan-writer-series","title":"Earth Again (Made in Michigan Writer Series)","description":"The second full-length collection from award-winning poet Chris Dombrowski, Earth Again transports readers to an imaginative world where identity is explored and expanded. With a mixture of long poems and shorter pieces, Dombrowski probes birth, death, sex, memory, and our blessed but treacherous engagement with the natural world. While he writes from a number of points of view and employs both male and female speakers, much of the collection's singular insight centers around masculine identity and being a husband and a father. Readers come away transformed, \"like the land \/ gasping as it does each late winter evening when \/ the sky at tree line, nearly sapphiric, goes black,\" as these poems prove Dombrowski to be a truly original American voice.\n\nComprised of three sections―each of which concludes with a long poem―Earth Again presents a range of narrative and emotions in dexterous rhythms, unexpected shifts, and unforgettable metaphors. Dombrowksi introduces readers to arresting images like \"the parataxis of her ass,\" \"cerulean, alchemical light,\" \"Molly with the sun in her mouth,\" and \"labyrinthine, lanky-stemmed, dew-magnified\" leaves. These details combine with Dombrowski's note-perfect language, which alternates between the most colloquial and the most elevated of diction. Readers will be challenged to consider spirituality alongside Scooby-Doo Band-aids, and to meditate on death after the mower has chewed up a plastic dinosaur, as Dombrowski revels in exploring our connection to the environment and one another.\n\nFans of Dombrowski's previous collection, By Cold Water (which was noted as a contemporary poetry bestseller by the Poetry Foundation in 2009), along with other poets and poetry lovers will appreciate the attention to detail and the imaginative intensity of the poems in Earth Again.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0814337295\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0814337295.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Dombrowski, Chris\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43335742193725,"sku":"BVV.0814337295.G","price":11.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0814337295-0.jpg?v=1783738212","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/earth-again-made-in-michigan-writer-series","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}