{"product_id":"the-length-of-a-clenched-fist-paperback","title":"The Length of a Clenched Fist - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eL. A. Felleman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt monthly open mic readings over the past few years, I've come to appreciate and look forward to\u003cstrong\u003e LA Felleman\u003c\/strong\u003e's poems, their conversational whimsy, their confident understatedness. Now you too can encounter these poems that fade \"to a fragile pale glint.\" In writing that spans the first eight months of the pandemic and quarantine, Felleman shares a generous range of interests, concerns, and sympathies-from Amazonian vampire bats to white privilege, from her landlord to Sei Shōnagon's \u003cem\u003eThe Pillow Book\u003c\/em\u003e, from the derecho to sandhill cranes. You'll discover poems that have the crisp, chiseled feel of prayers addressing our faith, doubt, grace, and grief, that ponder how the world might be \"if only I had more.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-David Duer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLA Felleman\u003c\/strong\u003e's \u003cem\u003eThe Length of a Clenched Fist\u003c\/em\u003e lives in the only habitable places of the early pandemic: crowded grocery stores, bird cam livestreams, wetland trails, borrowed homes, and memories of the Before Times. Instead of trying to keep pace with a year of global health crises, social uprisings, and natural disasters, these poems fall into step with rhythms of the domestic and natural worlds, the grounding repetitive acts of sweeping floorboards and listening to the calls of sandhill cranes. Under Felleman's meditative gaze, poetry becomes a practice, too: she observes the seemingly circumscribed world so closely that it begins to shimmer and swell, spilling out over the edges of quarantined life.\u003cstrong\u003e-Becca Klaver\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 42\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.1 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 16, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47490593358002,"sku":"9781646629664","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/42f15be37b459448adfbbdc65cfff646.webp?v=1779378054","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-length-of-a-clenched-fist-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}