{"product_id":"the-only-worlds-we-know-9781943735600","title":"The Only Worlds We Know","description":"\u003cb\u003eMichael Lee's \u003ci\u003eThe Only Worlds We Know\u003c\/i\u003e is a staggering debut that grapples with sobriety and survival. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Only Worlds We Know\u003c\/i\u003e Lee paints a nuanced and tactile portrait of addiction, and an unflinching look at the life that is built in recovery. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving suffered unspeakable grief, these poems are patient meditations on loss and the land where the people we love have not only lived, but are also buried. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Only World We Know\u003c\/i\u003e is constantly looking for the \"words that carry us into the dark and then beyond it.\" Lee's work carries readers, beyond personal demons, beyond life, death, and grief, tenderly, patiently pulling us through \u003ci\u003eThe Only Worlds We Know.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn award winning short film of Michael Lee's poem \"Pass On\" helped to break stereotypes about poetry and pave the way for thousands of poets to broadcast their work in video as well as in print. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"How much liquor can the body hold until the body leaves itself behind?\" -- from, Out There \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Advance praise for The Only Worlds We Know \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Only Worlds We Know is an \"act of remembering like sharpening a blade until the blade is gone.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Terrance Hayes, Author of How to Be Drawn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Lee has found new ways to write about some of the crucial subjects--love and love lost, recovery and addiction, the bullet and the pill. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e -Billy Collins, US Poet Laureate and Author of Sailing Alone Around the Room \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLee, Michael:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Michael Lee is a Norwegian American writer, youth worker and organizer. He has received grants and scholarships form the Minnesota State Arts Board, the LOFT Literary Center, and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Winner of the Scotti Merrill Award for poetry from the Key West Literary Seminar, his poetry has appeared in Ninth Letter, Hayden's Ferry Review, Indiana Review, Poetry Northwest, Copper Nickel and the Best New Poets Anthology among others.","brand":"Button Poetry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50857280930066,"sku":"9781943735600","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9386c32d-3a24-4b69-bb25-6b9489195a08.jpg?v=1737526630","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-only-worlds-we-know-9781943735600","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}