{"product_id":"lapis-9780819500083","title":"Lapis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA record of visionary experience in the wake of loss\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLapis\u003c\/i\u003e, poet Kerri Webster writes into the vast space left by the deaths of three women: her mother, a mentor, and a friend. Using a wide array of lyric forms and meditations, Webster explores matrilineages both familial and poetic, weaving together death, spirituality, women, and a sense of the shifting earth into one \"doctrine of Non-linear Revelation.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElegy \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd I \u003ci\u003ewas\u003c\/i\u003e equal to my longing: \u003cbr\u003ethe mums blackening; \u003cbr\u003esorrow a carboned figurine; \u003cbr\u003ethe firmament steaming; your ashes\u003cbr\u003einterred in the boulder;\u003cbr\u003ethe ugly birds crying dolor dolor dolor;\u003cbr\u003ethe sky smoke-choked--what, then, \u003cbr\u003ewould you have had be my register?\u003cbr\u003eAs the beasts of the field rub their antlers off \u003cbr\u003ewith ooh-itch pleasure; as the screen says \u003cbr\u003eYou often open around this time; as the grapes\u003cbr\u003eblight: listen: sometimes \u003cbr\u003ewe're the pilgrim, sometimes \u003cbr\u003ewe're the site.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKERRI WEBSTER (Boise, ID) is the author of the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eThe Trailhead\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWe Do Not Eat Our Hearts Alone, \u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Grand \u0026amp; Arsenal\u003c\/i\u003e, the latter of which won the Iowa Poetry Prize. The recipient of awards from the Whiting Foundation and the Poetry Society of America, she was a Visiting Writer-in-Residence at Washington University in St. Louis from 2006-2010. She currently teaches at Boise State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wesleyan University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50388453589266,"sku":"9780819500083","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f6e151e0-85ea-43e4-b0c5-9e8373407450.jpg?v=1728899776","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lapis-9780819500083","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}