{"product_id":"come-the-slumberless-to-the-land-of-nod-9781556595806","title":"Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod","description":"Written during the trial for a close friend's murder, \u003ci\u003eCome the Slumberless to the Land of Nod\u003c\/i\u003e exposes that the whimsical, horrible, and absurd all sit together. In this ambitious fourth collection, Traci Brimhall corresponds with the urges of life and death within herself as she lives through a series of impossibilities: the sentencing of her friend's murderers, the birth of her child, the death of her mother, divorce, a trip sailing through the Arctic. In lullaby, lyric essay, and always with brutal sincerity, Brimhall examines how beauty and terror live right alongside each other--much like how Nod is both a fictional dreamscape and the place where Cain is exiled for murdering Abel. By plucking at the tensions between life and death, love and hate, truth and obscurity, Brimhall finds what it is that ties opposing themes together; how love and loss are married in grief. Like Eve thrust from Eden, Brimhall is tasked with finding meaning in a world defined by its cruelty. Unrelenting, incisive, and tender, these poems expose beauty in the grotesque and argue that the effort to be good always outweighs the desire to succumb to what is easy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTraci Brimhall has written four collections of poetry: \u003cem\u003eCome the Slumberless to the Land of Nod; Saudade; Our Lady of the Ruins, \u003c\/em\u003e which won the Barnard Women Poets Prize; and \u003cem\u003eRookery.\u003c\/em\u003e Her writing has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker, Poetry, The Believer, The New Republic, Best American Poetry, \u003c\/em\u003e and PBS Newshour. She has received fellowships from the Breadloaf Writers Conference, Sewanee Writers Conference, the Arctic Circle Residency, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She holds degrees from Florida State University (BA), Sarah Lawrence College (MFA), and Western Michigan University (PhD), and is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Kansas State Universit\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50726235537682,"sku":"9781556595806","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c3b30c94-2eb3-40b3-9baf-29f946d5bb9e.jpg?v=1734860764","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/come-the-slumberless-to-the-land-of-nod-9781556595806","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}