{"product_id":"reading-wind-9781956285512","title":"Reading Wind","description":"Third Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize 2023\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReading Wind\u003c\/em\u003e is a beautiful tribute to a father, written in a daughter's favorite language-poetry. These poems celebrate the life of the author's father-a rural physician, accomplished musician, and man who was one with the earth-and take the reader on an imagery-rich journey of mourning and healing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"From the moment we enter Barrett's \u003cem\u003eReading Wind, \u003c\/em\u003e we are stunned into awareness of the beauty and fragility of the human and natural world.\"-Judith H. Montgomery, author of \u003cem\u003ePassion \u003c\/em\u003e(Oregon Book Award for Poetry)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In these amazing poems is an opportunity to drink into our souls the words of love for a life well lived.\"-William Ellis, Ph.D., Professor of Literature and Howard Payne University President (retired)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Reading Wind\u003c\/em\u003e immerses readers in a delightful nexus of botany, biography, medicine, and memory.\"- Annemarie E. Hamlin, Ph.D., VP for Academic Affairs, Central Oregon Community College\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Barrett's poems are \u003cem\u003epages of music\u003c\/em\u003e, passing on to us a profound medicine of \u003cem\u003eleaf, bird, heart, song\u003c\/em\u003e.\"\u003cp\u003e-Thomas R. Smith, author of \u003cem\u003eMedicine Year\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\"This is a work of discernible unity and personal truth, a journey the reader may begin gladly and finish with a sense of renewal.\"\u003cp\u003e-Diane Allerdyce, Professor of Humanities and author of \u003cem\u003eWhatever It Is I Was Giving Up\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Poetry Box","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50407059063058,"sku":"9781956285512","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2c0cf5ba-e107-441b-9cb6-baa9c12d09d7.jpg?v=1729236537","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/reading-wind-9781956285512","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}