{"product_id":"cloudshade-poems-of-the-high-plains-paperback","title":"Cloudshade: Poems of the High Plains - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLori Howe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn every season, life on America's high plains is at once harsh and beautiful, liberating and isolated, welcoming and unforgiving. The poems of Cloudshade take us through those seasons, swinging wide a glassless window to life in the West--to antelope flowing seamless over dirt roads, boom and bust ghost towns, deep, glacial lakes ringed with glowing aspen trees, ice fishing by the Northern Lights, and as in \"High Plains Solstice,\" live music on summer nights that\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ecarves hot petals \u003cbr\u003e through our bodies\u003cbr\u003e in its ritual of tides\u003cbr\u003e and light;\u003cbr\u003e licks us open \u003cbr\u003e from the inside\u003cbr\u003e until we are night-blooming jasmine\u003cbr\u003e seduced by the moon.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCloudshade is a book for everyone, from poetry lovers to those who don't usually read poems. If you've ever waited through five or six months of winter for the first signs of spring, stood outside to feel the first, long-awaited summer rains, caught the wood-smoke and cottonwood scent of fall, or stood on a frozen lake, listening to winter rumbling and heaving through the ice, these poems will carry you back to what is elemental and haunting about life on the high plains, as in \"On the Ice,\" where\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe wait, silent, hearing with our feet\u003cbr\u003e the seething of ultramarine blood, \u003cbr\u003e the twitching of bones, \u003cbr\u003e rumbles of omens\u003cbr\u003e and restless spirits.\u003cbr\u003e The ice stretches and heaves, \u003cbr\u003e cracking like gunshot, \u003cbr\u003e and beneath that, glints and gleamings\u003cbr\u003e of sound, like whales\u003cbr\u003e calling across the darkness.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the poetic tradition of James Wright and B.H. Fairchild, these poems are rooted in the mercies of daily life, illuminating the intersections between our own internal landscapes and those that surround us. Howe offers a fleeting portrait of that intersection in the poem, \"En Route to My Father's Funeral\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAt a pale crossroads, \u003cbr\u003e in an open shop two floors up, \u003cbr\u003e a welder works into the night.\u003cbr\u003e His arc is lonesome in the cool air, \u003cbr\u003e gobbets of fire\u003cbr\u003e like unformed angels\u003cbr\u003e falling.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Whether you live on the high plains or it lives in your memory, the poems of Cloudshade, like the first summer rain, bring the sounds, scents, and the vividness of life back to us, whole. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 78\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.19 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 18, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42721823621183,"sku":"9780996020695","price":22.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/9654316ad9cccc3a2a844ad805b79043.webp?v=1765093694","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/cloudshade-poems-of-the-high-plains-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}