{"product_id":"the-couple-who-fell-to-earth-9781936196548","title":"The Couple Who Fell to Earth","description":"These meditations, cosmic-toned, yet utterly visceral, demonstrate Michelle Bitting's continuing growth and power as a poet of love, loss, the daily and deeply human experience, together with a maturing eye to understanding greater mythological tropes. Woven throughout her contemplation of the terrible beauty and struggle of family dynamics, corporeal desire, the injustices and revelations of life in the 21st century, thrums a vital connectivity to the mystic and mythological strains of the past, newfangled to the present in a way that ultimately sheds light on what it is to be alive and conscious of who we're called to be. To read Michelle's poetry is to take a wild, passionate ride through the rubble of the quotidian, to be shocked by sensual discovery and awakened to a relentless curiosity for both the surreal and historical. These poems travel-an expansion in service of communion with the world, confrontation and acceptance of self.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBitting, Michelle:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Michelle Bitting's first collection, GOOD FRIDAY KISS (C\u0026amp;R, 2008) won the DeNovo First Book Award. Her second collection, \u003cem\u003eNotes To The Beloved\u003c\/em\u003e (SPC, 2011) won the Sacramento Poetry Center Book Award and received a starred review from \u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e. Her newest collection is THE COUPLE WHO FELL TO EARTH (C\u0026amp;R Press, 2016). Poems have been published in the \u003cem\u003eAmerican Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Narrative, The L.A. Weekly, diode, Linebreak, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Paris-American\u003c\/em\u003e, and have been nominated for the Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University and is currently a PhD candidate in Mythological Studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She grew up in Los Angeles near the ocean.","brand":"C\u0026r Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50364308357394,"sku":"9781936196548","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3b18d9d7-c392-4eae-92d2-ea336e4b4fcc.jpg?v=1728430896","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-couple-who-fell-to-earth-9781936196548","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}