{"product_id":"phyla-of-joy-9781932195149","title":"Phyla of Joy","description":"\"Karen An-hwei Lee's third book is a beautiful and sustained meditation on the impermanence of humanity's essential components: memory, spirituality, emotion, thought....Contemplative and linguistically sophisticated, Phyla of Joy is simply exquisite --'ink and stanza \/ flow like wind on grass.'\" -- Rigoberto Gonz?lez \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere's an undeniable audacity in a poet using the word \"joy\" in our beleaguered world. In her new book, Karen An-hwei Lee combines scientific precision and an appetite for far-flung vocabularies with a fascination for the sources of rapturous emotion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn poems that roam from the intimacy of prayer to the art of brewing tea, from bamboo-related famine to quasars, the globe's minor seas, and the nuptial flight of ants, Phyla of Joy reaches toward ecstasy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLee, Karen:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Karen An-hwei Lee is the author of PHYLA OF JOY (Tupelo Press, 2012), ARDOR (Tupelo Press, 2008), and \u003cem\u003eIn Medias Res\u003c\/em\u003e (Sarabande Books, 2004), selected for the Kathryn A. Morton Prize by Heather McHugh and chosen for the Norma Farber First Book Award by Cole Swensen. A former writing resident at the MacDowell Colony of the Arts and the Millay Arts Colony and recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts grant, she currently chairs the English Department at a faith-based college in southern California, where she is also a novice harpist.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLee, Karen:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Karen An-hwei Lee is the author of PHYLA OF JOY (Tupelo Press, 2012), ARDOR (Tupelo Press, 2008), and \u003cem\u003eIn Medias Res\u003c\/em\u003e (Sarabande Books, 2004), selected for the Kathryn A. Morton Prize by Heather McHugh and chosen for the Norma Farber First Book Award by Cole Swensen. A former writing resident at the MacDowell Colony of the Arts and the Millay Arts Colony and recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts grant, she currently chairs the English Department at a faith-based college in southern California, where she is also a novice harpist.","brand":"Tupelo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50364100935954,"sku":"9781932195149","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ba5e89e7-d20d-426f-830f-07f4813eb415.jpg?v=1728426931","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/phyla-of-joy-9781932195149","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}