{"product_id":"disaster-tourism-9781960145796","title":"Disaster Tourism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDisaster Tourism\u003c\/i\u003e is a poetry collection that offers glimpses of disasters at once personal and global.\u003c\/b\u003e The term \"disaster tourism\" refers to the offensive practice of visiting sites after a cataclysm. Steeped in violence, injustice, immigration stories, and accounts of police brutality, Disaster Tourism gives us a lens to re-imagine our dangerous surroundings in the hopes that we strive toward a better existence, even when it hurts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn of a Cuban refugee father and a mother whose homeland of Gottschee is now considered Slovenia, Rena J. Mosteirin's identity and poetry are shaped by the respective lost homelands of her parents. Bold, unflinching, and lyrical, yet laced with a disarmingly clever and sometimes wicked sense of humor, these poems sift through various sites and forms of devastation to reveal moments of love and joy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMosteirin uses observational wit and arresting clarity to bring us closer to the fires burning all around us. Yet, through it all, there is the interconnectedness of family and community - including our world community - entreating us to carry on with an eye toward helping each other through this challenging life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRena J. Mosteirin teaches at Dartmouth College and owns Left Bank Books, a used bookstore in Hanover, New Hampshire. Her work has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe Common, The Rumpus, New York Magazine, New England Review, The Southampton Review, no tokens, The Puritan\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Mosteirin is an editor at Bloodroot Literary Magazine and lives in Lyme, NH.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51649037041938,"sku":"9781960145796","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a8505023-2ad3-4480-a227-9f21d7498054.jpg?v=1759843859","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/disaster-tourism-9781960145796","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}