{"product_id":"a-sun-inside-my-chest-9781950413300","title":"A Sun Inside My Chest","description":"\u003cp\u003eTerri Kirby Erickson's sixth collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eA Sun Inside My Chest\u003c\/em\u003e, is one of those big books, the kind that fling themselves straight into our hearts and wedge there forever among the songs and prayers that sustain us. . . Her poems resound with a generous wisdom that recognizes elegy is as much a celebration as a mourning . . . This powerful book is here . . . to show us that loss is a catalyst for loving more deeply, and in the dark night of the world, light will find us, whether or not we seek it. -Rhett Iseman Trull\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eErickson, Terri Kirby:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Terri Kirby Erickson is the author of five previous collections of poetry. Her work has received multiple honors, including the Joy Harjo Poetry Prize, Nautilus Silver Book Award, Atlanta Review International Publication Award, Gold Medal in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Nazim Hikmet Poetry Award, and many others. She was also selected to be in The Sixty-Four: 2019, featuring the best poets of 2019, by Black Mountain Press and The Halcyone. Her poems have appeared in Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry, Asheville Poetry Review, Atlanta Review, Connotation Press, Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness \u0026amp; Connection, JAMA, Latin American Literary Review, O.Henry Magazine, Plainsongs, Poetry Foundation, Poet's Market, storySouth, The Christian Century, The Sun, The Writer's Almanac, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Verse Daily, and numerous other journals, anthologies, and publications. She lives with her husband in North Carolina.","brand":"Press 53","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50377927688466,"sku":"9781950413300","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_15e53ecb-b814-4efb-997c-f493b60c4465.jpg?v=1728636326","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-sun-inside-my-chest-9781950413300","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}