{"product_id":"asked-what-has-changed-9780819580115","title":"Asked What Has Changed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlack ecopoet observes the changing world from a high-rise window\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAward-winning poet Ed Roberson confronts the realities of an era in which the fate of humanity and the very survival of our planet are uncertain. Departing from the traditional nature poem, Roberson's work reclaims a much older tradition, drawing into poetry's orbit what the physical and human sciences reveal about the state of a changing world. These poems test how far the lyric can go as an answer to our crisis, even calling into question poetic form itself. Reflections on the natural world and moments of personal interiority are interwoven with images of urbanscapes, environmental crises, and political instabilities. These poems speak life and truth to modernity in all its complexity. Throughout, Roberson takes up the ancient spiritual concern--the ephemerality of life--and gives us a new language to process the feeling of living in a century on the brink.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMorello's Venice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003estartled to hear the doctor say\u003cbr\u003ethis would be the last time he would see it, \u003cbr\u003ea person used to keeping things alive\u003cbr\u003etalking terminus -- even more\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003estartled when he returned\u003cbr\u003eto hear him say it wasn't there\u003cbr\u003ethere were terrible rains\u003cbr\u003ebookings cancelled.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ewhen late he arrived, \u003cbr\u003eeverything was gone.\u003cbr\u003ehis wife had a cold.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ethey bundled together in blankets.\u003cbr\u003ehe refilled my prescription to\u003cbr\u003erestore my soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eED ROBERSON (Chicago, IL) is a contemporary, award-winning poet, Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at Northwestern University, and the author of\u003ci\u003e To See the Earth Before the End of the World.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wesleyan University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50445073121554,"sku":"9780819580115","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_74fcf346-3cc2-400f-9f6e-d9cbf781d9d9.jpg?v=1729695070","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/asked-what-has-changed-9780819580115","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}