{"product_id":"to-leave-for-our-own-country-9781625570697","title":"To Leave for Our Own Country","description":"The natural world unfolds in ongoing changes of light and violent storms and moments of sheer sunrise and moonlit beauty as patient humans sustain their lives in John Linstrom's lovely collection, \u003ci\u003eTo Leave for Our Own Country\u003c\/i\u003e. These poems are about surviving and sheltering in each other, but they are also about stopping to notice, to remember, to honor, and to mourn the troubling signs of a changing climate. [... ] Love is the abiding force, the glue in the world these poems occupy. ' We love this world so; we pour into it, ' the poems announce. And the love comes in incessant waves, love enough to survive snowstorms and near-drownings and hurricane force winds, love that flows into the poems just as tributaries, wetlands, and river mouths feed the author's home waters of Lake Michigan.- Debra Marquart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Linstrom is the author of the poetry collection TO LEAVE FOR OUR OWN COUNTRY (Black Lawrence Press, 2024). He is a Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Climate and Inequality at The Climate Museum in New York City, and he is also the Series Editor of The Liberty Hyde Bailey Library for Cornell University Press, which reintroduces the ecospheric writings of Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954) to twenty-first-century readers. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in \u003ci\u003eNorthwest Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Christian Century\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNorth American Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere, and his editions of Bailey's works include \u003ci\u003eThe Nature-Study Idea\u003c\/i\u003e (Cornell UP, 2024), \u003ci\u003eThe Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener's Companion\u003c\/i\u003e (coedited; Cornell UP, 2019), and \u003ci\u003eThe Holy Earth\u003c\/i\u003e (Counterpoint, 2015). He holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State University and a PhD in English and American Literature from New York University. A child of small-town Michigan, he now lives with his wife and baby daughter in Queens.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Black Lawrence Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50661897797906,"sku":"9781625570697","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_17e364ae-b6fb-45aa-b5c4-2f8da734d7a6.jpg?v=1733508010","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/to-leave-for-our-own-country-9781625570697","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}