{"product_id":"red-ocher-9781682262290","title":"Red Ocher","description":"In Jessica Poli's \u003ci\u003eRed Ocher\u003c\/i\u003e, the wild mortality of the natural world merges with melancholic expressions of romantic loss: a lamb runt dies in the night, a first-time lover inflicts casual cruelties, brussels sprouts rot in a field, love goes quietly and unbearably unrequited. This is an ecopoetics that explores the cyclical natures of love and grief, mindful that \"there will be room for desire \/ again, even after it leaves \/ like a flood receding, \/ the damaged farmhouses \/ and washed-away bridges \/ lying scattered the next day \/ amid silt and debris.\" Throughout, Poli's poems hold space for the sacred-finding it in woods overgrown with thorny weeds, in drunken joy rides down rural roads, and in the red ocher barns that haunt the author's physical and emotional landscapes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJessica Poli is the author of four chapbooks and coeditor of the collection \u003ci\u003eMore in Time: A Tribute to Ted Kooser\u003c\/i\u003e. Originally from Pennsylvania, Poli now a PhD candidate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Arkansas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50534553092370,"sku":"9781682262290","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fd0ea57e-0096-4b9b-80b6-e945459a5130.jpg?v=1731428030","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/red-ocher-9781682262290","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}