{"product_id":"the-book-of-marys-and-glaciers-9781961209541","title":"The Book of Marys and Glaciers","description":"\u003cb\u003eThree sequences of poems engaging with deserts, consumerism, Alaskan ice, religious icons, and more. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The poems collected in \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Marys and Glaciers\u003c\/i\u003e traverse both the psychological and physical landscape to explore the too-muchness and overwhelm that categorizes our demand-driven age. The longest series, \"Dust Cover,\" is a meditation on deserts of all kinds--geographic, urban, celestial, domestic, and linguistic. The poems themselves enact their own ideas of space and emptiness, building to a work that grain after grain becomes heavy as a whole. In contrast, the title sequence \"The Book of Marys and Glaciers\" is an expansive work of feminist ecopoetics that asks questions about the role of women as mothers, religious figures, friends, and lovers in a society that rarely makes room for quietude anymore. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Altogether, the poems are controlled, precise investigations and interrogations of the ideas and images we take for granted. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarrie Olivia Adams \u003c\/b\u003elives in Chicago, where she is the executive editor for Black Ocean and the Promotions and Marketing Communications Director for the University of Chicago Press. Her books include\u003ci\u003e Be the thing of memory\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOperating Theater\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eForty-One Jane Doe's\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIntervening Absence\u003c\/i\u003e, in addition to the chapbooks \u003ci\u003eProficiency Badges\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGrapple\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOverture in the Key of F\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Useless Window\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the curator of the Poetry \u0026amp; Biscuits house reading series and the newsletter of the same name, and when she's not making poems, she's probably making biscuits. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tupelo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52179974160658,"sku":"9781961209541","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_01cfd3e2-429e-43a8-aa1a-000425e83960.jpg?v=1775641414","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-book-of-marys-and-glaciers-9781961209541","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}