{"product_id":"this-passage-poems-9781649223548","title":"This Passage: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This is the most powerful and personal collection of poetry I have ever read,\" remarked Tom Spence, author of \u003cem\u003eObservations and Commentary: One Hundred Poems\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A book of our time,\" asserted Veronica Golos, author of \u003cem\u003eGIRL\u003c\/em\u003e (winner, International Naji Naaman Honor Prize for Poetry, Beirut, Lebanon), and \u003cem\u003eVocabulary of Silence\u003c\/em\u003e (winner, New Mexico Poetry Award).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in this collection reflect the realities of happiness, strength, and love, as well as cumulative disabilities, death, grief-and a passage to healing. This book blends Humanity with Poetry, both of which the poet believes are essential to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeering has won numerous poetry awards, including the Wyoming Arts Council Poetry Fellowship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the poem \u003cem\u003eMonsoon\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"You spoke of your slight limp, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ecrippled arm, problematic breathing.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI was drawn\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eto your sense of humor, energy, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eyour large-as-living smile...\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer first book, Havoc \u0026amp; Solace: Poems of the Inland West, was published by Sastrugi Press, 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sastrugi Press LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50900742406418,"sku":"9781649223548","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4bb9e9dc-a8ff-4cd0-a2f9-00ee883f45e5.jpg?v=1738394701","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/this-passage-poems-9781649223548","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}