{"product_id":"the-seeds-paperback-1","title":"The Seeds - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCecily Parks\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Seeds\u003c\/em\u003e confronts the ecological paradox of homemaking in an environment domesticity rejects--one of mess, disease, and everyday violence--to explore the equal distress and delight entangled in caring for a family, a new home, and the earth that sustains them. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCecily Parks draws on literary sources ranging from nursery rhymes to \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e to examine how we form relationships with the natural world. The lessons of these poems are in processes that underscore humanity's power to alter nature and powerlessness to control it: an epiphyte's fall from a live oak, an urban creek's response to drought, or a roof rat's nest-building in the attic of the poet's home. Motherhood positions the speaker to revisit her girlhood relation to the earth, and as her two young daughters exemplify the ease with which children can become nature's intimates, the speaker must confront the ecological disturbances that arise from her own attempts to prevent upset to the garden through aggression by weeds, animals, and weather.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Seeds\u003c\/em\u003e deconstructs what it means to love nature, especially when the natural world challenges our desires for beauty, abundance, and safety. Looking to more-than-human guides with an open mind and heart, Parks' third book is a collection of unconventional contemporary environmental histories, in which places become biological and emotional primers for those who will inherit them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCecily Parks\u003c\/b\u003e is the editor of the anthology \u003ci\u003eThe Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses, \u003c\/i\u003e and the author of three poetry collections, including most recently \u003ci\u003eThe Seeds, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich is forthcoming from Alice James Books. Her poems appear in venues such as \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, A Public Space, the New Republic, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry.\u003c\/i\u003e She teaches in the MFA Program at Texas State University and lives in Austin, Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.32 x 8.82 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 14, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43155054821439,"sku":"9781949944891","price":26.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/UlDvYILT9D9781949944891.webp?v=1776961805","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-seeds-paperback-1","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}