{"product_id":"defensible-space-if-a-crow-paperback","title":"Defensible Space\/If a Crow-- - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIan Lockaby\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExperimental poetry that embraces shifts, adaptation, and the unknown as a means to move beyond old and dying worlds.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Considering how we might detox from old languages, systems, and modes of life, Ian Lockaby's poems seek out new forms of interconnectivity and possibility, finding the energy of emerging worlds along the edges of ruins. This collection poses questions of how to thrive in aftermaths, suggesting that attempts at absolute knowledge are less powerful than an embrace of the unknown. Throughout these poems, Lockaby uses crows as a model for dynamic adaption and creative entanglement with the world and with language, finding \"defensible space\" for new lyrical syntax amid shifts and desolation: \"Everywhere a burning root system. Everywhere, a root fire crowing off the splayed tail feathers of a crow.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDefensible Space\/if a crow--\u003c\/i\u003elooks towards a reintroduction of fire into wilds and wilds into our lives, taking the unknown of an \"if\" as the base from where we can build life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDefensible Space\/if a crow-\u003c\/i\u003e won Omnidawn's 2022 Poetry Chapbook contest, selected by Ruth Ellen Kocher. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIan Lockaby \u003c\/b\u003eis a poet, translator, and editor of the journal \u003ci\u003emercury firs\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of the chapbook \u003ci\u003eA Seam of Electricity\u003c\/i\u003e, and his poetry has been published in journals including \u003ci\u003eFence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Bennington Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry Northwest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEcotone\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVolt\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDenver Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e. His translations of Latin American poetry have been published in \u003ci\u003eBlack Warrior Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCircumference\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Washington Square Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. For many years he lived in and around Olympia, WA, where he worked on vegetable farms, and he now lives in New Orleans. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42734052540479,"sku":"9781632431592","price":20.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/15ad19e4e122b67d58d77f05d264b039.webp?v=1765138473","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/defensible-space-if-a-crow-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}