{"product_id":"flu-season-9781960329882","title":"Flu Season","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom \u003c\/em\u003eTraci Brimhall, Poet Laureate of Kansas, 2023-2026\u003c\/strong\u003e: \"In Katie Kalisz's \u003cem\u003eFlu Season\u003c\/em\u003e, a welcome is also a warning. Daily anxieties caution us at every cough and intersection and goodbye kiss. There are dreads we pass down, an inheritance of fear that blooms at each creep of poison ivy, each thunderhead. Kalisz investigates the way time slows during illness, the season opening up and every act becoming a prayer. These poems engage with the idea of home-its serpentine surprise, its necessary violence, its bondage of calm. There are tendernesses we can't live without, and so these poems search for a place in the earth where we could hide from the world we've made.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKalisz, Katie:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Katie Kalisz is a Professor in the English Department at Grand Rapids Community College, where she teaches composition and creative writing. She holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Loyola University of Chicago, and Queens University of Charlotte. Quiet Woman, her first book, was a finalist for the 2018 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. She is the recipient of a 2023 Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, and her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She lives in Michigan with her husband and their three children.","brand":"Cornerstone Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51324819636498,"sku":"9781960329882","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_31239358-0584-44ef-b7a4-bb35e1c12664.jpg?v=1748703353","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/flu-season-9781960329882","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}