{"product_id":"the-way-of-the-earth-poems-9780810145665","title":"The Way of the Earth: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eA lyrical collection examines the quotidian beauty that surrounds us despite deep loss and climate crisis\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Way of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is the fourth collection from award-winning poet Matthew Shenoda. In this, his most personal collection to date, he explores the temporal and fleeting nature of human life and the earth we inhabit. Through ruminations on the intersections of culture and ecology, the death of loved ones, and the growing inequities in our midst, Shenoda explores what it means to be a person both grounded to the earth and with a yearning beyond it. Memories of landscapes and histories echo throughout the sensations of the present: the sight of egrets wading in the marshes, the smell of the ocean, a child's hand nestled in a warm palm. \"Time never goes back,\" Shenoda writes, \"but the imagination must.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMATTHEW SHENODA\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer as well as a professor and chair of the Department of Literary Arts at Brown University. He is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eTahrir \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuite\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003ePoems\u003c\/i\u003e (TriQuarterly), winner of the 2015 Arab American Book Award. He is the editor, with Kwame Dawes, of \u003ci\u003eBearden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003es Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003ePoets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden\u003c\/i\u003e (TriQuarterly, 2017), and a founding editor of the African Poetry Book Fund.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Triquarterly Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50680235262226,"sku":"9780810145665","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2decfffe-429e-4c94-9cae-e2047f03f170.jpg?v=1734903908","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-way-of-the-earth-poems-9780810145665","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}