{"product_id":"listening-in-the-dark-9781956285291","title":"Listening in the Dark","description":"\u003cp\u003e3rd Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eListening in the Dark\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ecenter on the theme of growing up with an unidentified hearing loss that progressively became much worse. In her mid-20s, Suzy Harris learned the diagnosis and started wearing hearing aids. In her mid-60s, after losing most of her hearing in both ears, she received her first cochlear implant, and then a second one, which required learning to hear again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarly Praise: \u003c\/p\u003e\"I have seldom encountered a series of poems so closely linked and connected as a whole. This chapbook tenderly addresses the poet's lifelong hearing loss with a surprising precision of language, starting at the very beginning of life and reimagining that time of \u003cem\u003egrowing up with two languages, \/ one that is silence\u003c\/em\u003e. No doubt these tender poems will help many readers to feel less alone as they navigate their own worlds of memory, loss, and resilience.\"\u003cstrong\u003e-James Crews, contest judge, poet, editor of \u003cem\u003eHow to Love the World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Suzy Harris propels us into her world-an exultant quest from 'Broken Listening' to the cacophony and wonder of sound.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Willa Schneberg, LCSW, recipient of the Oregon Book Award for Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\"With lyric intensity, her poems convey Harris' experiences as she slowly undertakes the eerie process of learning a whole new universe of sound, translating the implants' \u003cem\u003eticks and taps and dings\u003c\/em\u003e into what's recognizable. Risen from its own ashes, the poet's new sense of hearing leads her toward the \u003cem\u003eexquisite harmony\u003c\/em\u003e of soaring renewal.\"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e-Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Poetry Box","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50456252875026,"sku":"9781956285291","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ebd95d39-1079-43f2-adbd-a18160762e9b.jpg?v=1729904388","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/listening-in-the-dark-9781956285291","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}