{"product_id":"butterfly-nebula-9781496236104","title":"Butterfly Nebula","description":"Gold Medal in Poetry for the 2024 Illumination Book Awards \u003cbr\u003e 2024 Catholic Media Association Book Award Honorable Mention in Poetry \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry, \u003ci\u003eButterfly Nebula\u003c\/i\u003e reaches from the depths of the sea to the edges of space to chart intersections of the physical universe, the divine, the human, and the constantly unfolding experience of being \"one thing in the act of becoming another.\" This collection of poems teems with creatures and cosmic phenomena that vivify and reveal our common struggle toward faith and identity. The longing and metamorphosis of the human heart and soul are reimagined in an otherworldly landscape of firework jellyfish, sea slug, stingray, praying mantis, butterfly and moth, moon and star, and celestial events ranging from dark matter and Kepler's Supernova remnant to a dozen classified nebulae. Our desire for purpose and renewal collides with the vast constellation of divine possibility in this collection, which invites the reader to enter a transformative world both deeply interior and embracing of the far-flung cosmos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaura Reece Hogan\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eI Live, No Longer I\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eO Garden-Dweller\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLitany of Flights\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Backwaters Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50615485006098,"sku":"9781496236104","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d9d300cb-1e02-4750-9a05-575eabd1375a.jpg?v=1732490395","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/butterfly-nebula-9781496236104","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}