{"product_id":"underscore-9781632431318","title":"Underscore","description":"\u003cb\u003eTender lyric poetry dedicated to two of the poet's most influential late teachers.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Julie Carr's most intimate book to date, \u003ci\u003eUnderscore\u003c\/i\u003e, is dedicated to two of Carr's foundational teachers, the dancer Nancy Stark Smith and the poet Jean Valentine, both of whom died in 2020. Elegiac and tender--at times erotic at other times bitter--these poems remain deeply invested in human relationships amid a life whose backdrop is human suffering. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Reaching toward the \"ghost companions in the thicket\" and to the beloveds who still \"pulse with activity,\"\u003ci\u003e Underscore\u003c\/i\u003e's sonically intricate poems express a longing for dynamic forces of intra-action, a sense of expanded encounter, and what Stark Smith called \"overlapping kinespheres.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulie Carr\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of eleven books of poetry and prose, including \u003ci\u003eClimate\u003c\/i\u003e, cowritten with Lisa Olstein;\u003ci\u003e Real Life: An Installation\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eObjects from a Borrowed Confession\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSomeone Shot My Book\u003c\/i\u003e; and\u003ci\u003e 100 Notes on Violence\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Denver where she teaches at the University of Colorado and helps run Counterpath, a press bookstore, gallery, and community garden space. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Omnidawn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50899135168786,"sku":"9781632431318","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d3991c48-0d3c-4b5e-ab7e-6a1e30fee32d.jpg?v=1738347852","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/underscore-9781632431318","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}