{"product_id":"creature-poems-9780822967231","title":"Creature: Poems","description":"Written\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eduring the last five years of the poet's father's life, \u003ci\u003eCreature \u003c\/i\u003eis a book about love, destruction, and the self, all standing in relation to family and the natural world. The poems themselves try to move toward what can't be said by finding connection with other life forms: hawks, hummingbirds, pelicans, lizards, horses, ravens, squid. By moving past linguistic walls into otherness, words become proximate to mystery and inhabit territory where expanses open and embodiment is always on the verge of transformation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarsha de la O\u003c\/b\u003e is a lecturer in the English Department at California State University, Channel Islands, where she teaches poetry and creative writing. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eEvery Ravening Thing, Antidote for Night, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBlack Hope\u003c\/i\u003e. Her poems have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker, The Slowdown\u003c\/i\u003e, and many journals, and she is a recipient of the Morton Marcus Poetry Prize. She lives with her husband in Ventura, California, where they founded the Ventura County Poetry Project to support local poetry.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50718357324050,"sku":"9780822967231","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c9f6fcb1-4b93-4cd8-978b-e7a6f0a8061e.jpg?v=1734637611","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/creature-poems-9780822967231","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}