{"product_id":"the-wild-delight-of-wild-things-paperback","title":"The Wild Delight of Wild Things - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrian Turner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlthough grief is at the forefront of these poems, \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Delight of Wild Things\u003c\/i\u003e is a simple love letter to Turner's late wife, poet Ilyse Kusnetz (1966-2016).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems are also a love letter to our planet during the ongoing sixth mass extinction. Intertwining this immense grief, Turner explores the hybrid borderlands of genre, and the meditations on love and loss blur the boundaries between poetry and lyric prose. In Italian, the word \"stanza\" is rooted in the word \"room.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd so, stanza by stanza, room by room, page by page, we draft ourselves forward into the imagination, our arms filled with all that we can carry from the days gone by. This is the art of survival. Profound grief teaches us how to dwell in the house of memory--that vibrant temporal landscape of the past--where we might live with the dead we love once more.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrian Turner\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eHere, Bullet\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePhantom Noise\u003c\/i\u003e. His memoir \u003ci\u003eMy Life as a Foreign Country\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2014. He's the editor of The Kiss, and co-edited The Strangest of Theatres. His work has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, Harper's, \u003c\/i\u003e and other fine journals. Turner was featured in the documentary film Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, nominated for an Academy Award. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, and he's received a USA Hillcrest Fellowship in Literature, an NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry, the Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship, a US-Japan Friendship Commission Fellowship, the Poets' Prize, and a Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. He directs the MFA program in Lake Tahoe and lives in Orlando, Florida.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 08, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47458267857074,"sku":"9781949944532","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/1b83c79d755b9565366f1e199a8fd400.webp?v=1778889571","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-wild-delight-of-wild-things-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}