{"product_id":"by-stone-and-needle-poems-9780807185070","title":"By Stone and Needle: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2025 L. E. Phillabaum Poetry Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShimmering to the pulse of the unseen, \u003ci\u003eBy Stone and Needle \u003c\/i\u003ecircles like a compass needle around the figure of the witch. Catherine Carter concocts a book of secular spells and incantations for engaging with, and meditating upon, a world in which all things are connected, in which symbol slides into literal, spirituality into science, exact observation into lamentation and love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eBy Stone and Needle \u003c\/i\u003espin connecting threads between night sweats, witch drownings, creation stories, pedicures, goddesses--and, especially, between miraculously interconnected ecosystems and the forces that threaten them. Speakers encompass personae including lactobacilli bacteria, bodily yeasts, and the classical witch Medea, while elsewhere a contemporary version of the goddess Artemis appears in Appalachia. Carter's poetic vision imbues everyday moments such as putting on a coat, piercing an ear, confronting racism and patriarchy, or eating onion slices with a new definition of magic as \"the human thing.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatherine W. Carter \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of three previous poetry collections, most recently \u003ci\u003eLarvae of the Nearest Stars, \u003c\/i\u003e two chapbooks, and a co-translation of John Gower's Middle English poem \u003ci\u003eThe Lover's Confession\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has also appeared in \u003ci\u003ePoetry \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eRHINO, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51474751258898,"sku":"9780807185070","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a5753754-6330-49d9-b7e9-68c05bf0d579.jpg?v=1752579363","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/by-stone-and-needle-poems-9780807185070","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}