{"product_id":"attendance-9781946031327","title":"Attendance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eAttendance\u003c\/em\u003e is a meditation, an ushering-in of the kind of mindfulness that life deserves. One that leaves readers like me nodding and saying yes to lines like these: 'Just try to want different things' and 'You can do anything you want with me as long as you do it slowly first.' Carlos and Kaminer are power, and this book is plain gorgeous.\" \u003cbr\u003e --Natashia Deón, author of \u003cem\u003eGrace\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"I expected to be moved by this collaborative work from Rachel McLeod Kaminer and Rocío Carlos--they are two distinct and beautiful poets after all. But what I didn't expect from \u003cem\u003eAttendance\u003c\/em\u003e is the way it brought the life around me to life. How the birds and the trees and the landscape began to move in ways I hadn't noticed before, how my skin began to feel enveloped by the details of the day. Great art has always made me know that I belonged in the world, that I wasn't wandering through it alone. And \u003cem\u003eAttendance\u003c\/em\u003e, as much as any recent book, has reminded me of this truth.\" \u003cbr\u003e --Chiwan Choi, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Yellow House\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"what can we actually unlearn? capitalism is cellular where birdsound is molecular? shall we abandon the impulse to overtake? shall we slough of layers of administration to expose the medular hollow? where might we rest our heads?\" \u003cbr\u003e --jen hofer, from 'an after attendance'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e---------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading \u003cem\u003eAttendance\u003c\/em\u003e trains your attention on plants and animals until you can't stop noticing them. It's a way of moving through the natural world--which turns out to include the whole world. An almanac, a logbook, a devotional, a witness statement, poetry. A documentary not in the sense of capturing but in the sense of being a creature paying attention to the world we already live in. It's a hybrid text: One year of two people reaching their arms across styles and genres. At times notes, at times lists, or run-on sentences, or poems, or things that want to be poems, but always plants, and always animals. The words are offered up with no correction or with the revision exposed. This is writing that includes where it comes from or writing that painfully doesn't become.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe hold so many questions about love and attention and violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarlos, Rocío:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - ROCÍO CARLOS is the author of (the other house), forthcoming from Civil Coping Mechanisms in 2019. She is also the author of Coyolxhauqui, Los Angeles (Archetype Press, 2012), A World Below (Mindmade Books, 2014), and co-author of ex*her*pt (wirecutter collective, 2016). She was selected as a 2003 Pen Center Emerging Voices fellow. She has infamous cats.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcLeod Kaminer, Rachel:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - RACHEL MCLEOD KAMINER grew up in the Blue Ridge of the Appalachian Mountains. Her book of poetry As in the dark, descend was published with Writ Large Press in 2016. Rachel lives and works in Los Ángeles; she really likes to read.","brand":"Operating System","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50857315500306,"sku":"9781946031327","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6209ec68-9565-4be7-afc6-ec68f25f2445.jpg?v=1737527867","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/attendance-9781946031327","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}