{"product_id":"a-future-unmappable-paperback","title":"A Future Unmappable - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichele Parker Randall\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere's a rope between two burning towers. One tower burns anxiously. The other tower (the left side of the brain) burns orderly. Randall is dancing on that rope. It is the motion-a footfall, a locomotive blowing hard, a wave-that keeps her from falling. An ecstasy is a song to motion, to ex stasis, and Randall belts it true enough to pop the deepest bass string on your Fender Squier guitar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Barrett Warner\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWhy Is It So Hard to Kill You?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese powerful poems erode our physical boundaries leaving us to explore mental illness as a patient and as a caregiver alternatively. With ferocity yet in a ceremony of revelation, Michele Parker Randall's \u003cem\u003eA Future Unmapable \u003c\/em\u003eartfully discloses the unfathomable struggle of helping a beloved come back from the brink. Honest and courageous, each poem is a study of the much-needed conversation of what it is like to live with and recover from such a destabilizing experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Didi Jackson\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMoon Jar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eA Future Unmappable\u003c\/em\u003e, Michele Parker Randall\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eexplores the nakedness of mental uncertainty: What is real? what is not? when \"unable to tell the dream-state from the wake-state \/ Try to free someone from inside a balloon.\" Muted tension screams in the torque of Randall's lines: \"coiledspring \/ a snake\" \"between the wardscape \/ walls\" \"how many worlds we \/ fit in one day.\" These panoptic poems offer a view from the in-between lest any of us be too sure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Tanya Grae\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eUndoll\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\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 January 15, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42728560721983,"sku":"9781646624003","price":25.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/b8f1aaf1cdf8083440ccb54bacce8bad.webp?v=1765118948","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/a-future-unmappable-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}