{"product_id":"our-human-shores-9781965154014","title":"Our Human Shores","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOur Human Shores\u003c\/i\u003e explores living in the Anthropocene, the ecological disasters life faces, and the barriers and inequality society faces in trying to create a better and livable world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eOur Human Shores\u003c\/i\u003e is an exploration into how language is rooted within the Anthropocene -- and how poetry shapes meaning-making, faith in people and institutions, and death through lyricism, experiment, and ecopoetics. Using a phrase from John Keats' \"Bright Star\" sonnet, \u003ci\u003eOur Human Shores\u003c\/i\u003e explores a tautology of thresholds and shores to remake our world, our experience of nature, and our relationship with climate, creation, and humankind's existential place in a world staring down the apocalypse.\u003ci\u003eOur Human Shores\u003c\/i\u003e is a speculative work that will guide humanity through extinction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJosh Fomon\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThough We Bled Meticulously\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Black Ocean. His poems have appeared in a variety of journals, including \u003ci\u003eAfternoon Visitor\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCaketrain\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDIAGRAM\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDREGINALD\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Georgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e jubilat\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003emercury firs\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry Northwest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTYPO\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eYalobusha Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples in Seattle.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Black Ocean","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51615457247506,"sku":"9781965154014","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_616eea26-a07c-4530-a5cd-8ae19836a9d5.jpg?v=1758096749","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/our-human-shores-9781965154014","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}