{"product_id":"outside-the-joy-9798986614595","title":"Outside the Joy","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutside the Joy\u003c\/i\u003e is filled with poems that sear with lyric clarity about grief, love, survival, and wonder amid personal loss and environmental collapse. \u003c\/b\u003eTracing losses both interpersonal and universal - from a mother's failing heart to environmental and economic decline ravaging ancestral homelands - OUTSIDE THE JOY is a compendium of abundance in a world rife with want. With a voice as singular as it is illuminating, Awad explores the sharp contrasts of our shared existence: the human capacity to hurt and to hold one another, the love and grief that grow from our ephemeral connectedness. These poems unearth the sacred in the ordinary and invite you to do the same - \"if only \/ you'll let the world \/ soften you with its touching.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What a gift to be haunted by these words.\" --Maggie Smith, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eYou Could Make This Place Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRuth Awad \u003c\/b\u003eis a Lebanese American poet, 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellow, and the author of \u003ci\u003eSet to Music a Wildfire\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. Alongside Rachel Mennies, she is the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Familiar Wild: On Dogs \u0026amp; Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the recipient of a 2020 and 2016 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. Widely anthologized, her poems most recently appear in \u003ci\u003eYou Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World\u003c\/i\u003e edited by US Poet Laureate Ada Lim?n and published in association with the Library of Congress. Her work appears in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic, Poetry, Poem-a-Day, AGNI, The Believer, New Republic, Kenyon Review, Pleiades, Missouri Review, The Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She lives in Columbus, Ohio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Third Man Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50894334427410,"sku":"9798986614595","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a6a0c12e-2b99-4fd4-9bce-2b512befc372.jpg?v=1738248744","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/outside-the-joy-9798986614595","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}