{"product_id":"evidences-paperback","title":"Evidences - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames McCorkle\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJorie Graham\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChosen and with an Introduction by Jorie Graham, \u003ci\u003eEvidences\u003c\/i\u003e is the winner of the sixth annual \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e\/Honickman First Book Prize. In poems that are by turns lyrical, disjunctive, autobiographical, and political, \u003ci\u003eEvidences\u003c\/i\u003e sifts through residues of landscape and history. The physicality of the language and the invocation of the world of places and things form a meditative process, surveying the conditions of perception and memory, history and grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003efrom The Sand Runs Through\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComing out of the forest, at the edge of the clearing, \u003cbr\u003eThen at your door bearing a suitcase of vials, \u003cbr\u003eYou opened your window to owls\u003cbr\u003eFlying from pines, the sea a maze of color, \u003cbr\u003eRemembering, then, walking in the desert\u003cbr\u003eYou whispered the stars too\u003cbr\u003eMust be homeless, the desert the place of\u003cbr\u003eHis absence, that was the gift\u003cbr\u003eOr that which was taken away, \u003cbr\u003eYou whispered, in the sand the marks of bodies\u003cbr\u003eStretched out among twisted wood, \u003cbr\u003eAs examples, lost, as warnings, figures of evidence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne wants to live in a world so very brimful of what one loves and yet so equally full of its destruction: I do not believe it is possible to miss how brave this book is, how daring, and given over to beauty--both in its surface and in its love of what is on our surfaces.--Jorie Graham\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn independent scholar and writer, \u003cb\u003eJames McCorkle\u003c\/b\u003e lives in Geneva, New York, with his wife and two young daughters. He received the M.F.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and has had fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the NEA. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eConversant Essays: Contemporary Poets on Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and the author off \u003ci\u003eThe Still Performance\u003c\/i\u003e, a study of postmodern poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 110\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 9.14 x 6.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42702121959487,"sku":"9780971898141","price":16.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/2c96788f698a7e943bd6ad004f0526d0.webp?v=1765023230","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/evidences-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}