{"product_id":"accidental-garden-9781957062068","title":"Accidental Garden","description":"\"I admire these poems for their willingness to encounter; to give us the saw-toothed shark, the microbe, the manatee, and, of course, the moon. Here is a poet who holds, so dearly, all that slips away. 'O heart, ' begins one address, 'crumb-lover, taker of any bid. For as long \/ as there's land to walk along, isthmus, \/ channel, bridge to nothing, I'll move, I'll play, \/ I'll scrape flint into fire.'\"-Danusha Laméris, final judge, Barry Spacks Poetry Prize \"In \u003cem\u003eAccidental Garden\u003c\/em\u003e, Catherine Esposito Prescott assembles a glowing collection of poems that seam the quotidian with the ethereal; for this poet, they are one and the same. There is a gently probing curiosity to these poems, a faith pieced with wing, hedge, moon, and the tenderness of our own bodies. The poet writes: \"I am a woman with a voice...that rains light.\" That's what these poems do above all-they shine.\"-Emma Trelles, author of \u003cem\u003eTropicalia\u003c\/em\u003e and Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara\"In poems both elegiac and celebratory, Prescott uses the lyric form to simultaneously center and expand her (and our) human experience. \u003cem\u003eAccidental Garden\u003c\/em\u003e takes on a global pandemic and individual illness and emerges as a handbook for survival. These poems are intimate and vulnerable but also utterly fierce and hauntingly beautiful. In each poem, I felt in the hands of a master.\" -Dean Rader, author of \u003cem\u003eSelf-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWorks \u0026amp; Days\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gunpowder Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50645978186002,"sku":"9781957062068","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_54b276bf-3515-4cdd-86ac-f4a9b90dc1ae.jpg?v=1733166123","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/accidental-garden-9781957062068","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}