{"product_id":"thunderhead-9781639820696","title":"Thunderhead","description":"The lyric poems in Daye Phillippo's radiant debut collection Thunderhead explore faith, motherhood, family, and community. As the author has put it, she has lived her life \"\"backwards,\"\" first raising a large family, then going back to school, and only now seeing her work find its way into print. Rooted in Midwestern farm country near where she grew up, these place-based poems reflect a spiritual practice: searching for--and expecting to find--the sacred in the ordinary world of trees and weeds and seasons. Here you will find red-rooted pigweed and red-wing blackbirds, cornfields, woods, streams, gardens, and the creatures (human and otherwise) who inhabit them, in addition to a wide night sky filled with stars, and the ancient underground river, the Teays, that throbs and flows beneath them all. During a thunderstorm, Phillippo wonders: \"\"what if, \/ in choosing words to ponder we choose \/ our countenance, too?\"\" The poems in this collection offer us not only a compelling self-portrait, but a mirror in which we may better see who we are and might become.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Slant Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50387288686866,"sku":"9781639820696","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2873087c-032c-4321-a6a9-85ed2f696689.jpg?v=1765356028","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/thunderhead-9781639820696","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}