{"product_id":"the-memory-of-gills-9780807131763","title":"The Memory of Gills","description":"\u003cp\u003eCatherine Carter's first volume of poetry exudes a genuinely classical quality-cool-eyed and clear-eyed, intelligent, unsentimental, self-aware, and witty in the fullest and best sense. Carter takes our evolutionary development in the womb as a departure point for remembering or imagining our links with nonhuman animals, which make us feel both alien and alive. She writes of being \"raised by wolves,\" that \"everyone marries into another species,\" and of \"hearing things\" in the voices of the rattlesnake plantain or the apple core. With an offbeat, sometimes-gallows humor-the poems' subjects range from roadkill to stingray-human sex to a traffic ticket for avoiding toads on the road-that looks at our connections of blood, home, and exile, The Memory of Gills nonetheless speaks of hope that we belong where we are.Last night or rather this morning she called\u003cbr\u003eon the telephone in my dream. She thought it was\u003cbr\u003eThanksgiving, and she didn't know she was dead.\u003cbr\u003eI didn't want to tell her she was dead, or going to die\u003cbr\u003ethis May, which in the dream was still next May. I told her\u003cbr\u003eabout the job I still had last Thanksgiving, \u003cbr\u003etried to remember. My mother was there and spoke\u003cbr\u003eto her; no one knew quite what to say\u003cbr\u003eexcept love -- and before that I woke up.\u003cbr\u003eShe called, across six months, six feet;\u003cbr\u003eshe called us, and we didn't know how to go\u003cbr\u003eor what to say. Dead was too heavy, we couldn't\u003cbr\u003esay that; we couldn't say anything really. Except love, \u003cbr\u003ewhich this one time ought to have been enough, \u003cbr\u003ebut, as it always is, was nothing like enough.\u003cbr\u003e -- \"The Telephone in My Dream\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCatherine Carter 's poems have appeared in Poetry; North Carolina Poetry Review; Cider Press Review; and other journals. A native of the tidewater region of Maryland, she now lives in Cullowhee, North Carolina, where she is an assistant professor of English at Western Carolina University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50901686845714,"sku":"9780807131763","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2b924ba3-d093-4c2c-b060-4aec6c7118d0.jpg?v=1738435276","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-memory-of-gills-9780807131763","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}