{"product_id":"whale-fall-poems-paperback","title":"Whale Fall: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Baker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed as an essential voice of the American Midwest, David Baker expands both his environment and his form in his eleventh collection. \u003cem\u003eWhale Fall\u003c\/em\u003e is about time, measured in the wingbeats of a hummingbird or the epochs of geological change, and about place, whether a backyard in Ohio or the slopes of a melting glacier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the exquisite, musical title poem, a deft hybrid of eco-poetic alarm and intimate narrative, Baker transports us to the deep sea as a single gray whale carcass falls, decays, and is reinhabited by a cosmos of teeming lives. Among the strands of ocean health, microplastics, and related calamities of human disregard, the poet weaves in a personal story of chronic illness. The result is a stirring, confident work, astonishing in its emotional acuity and lyric range.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach poem in \u003cem\u003eWhale Fall\u003c\/em\u003e is an echolocation, emitting its music to situate itself among others in the vastness of the world. Amidst climate change and catastrophe, as amidst a blooming viburnum or a viral disease, these poems send their songs across empty spaces of a line, a page, or a continent, to see who is out there, moving in the depths of being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.32 x 8.24 x 6.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 12, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42695522811967,"sku":"9781324074687","price":19.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/9762f60cb1f46746c9e30845392faf4d.webp?v=1765004084","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/whale-fall-poems-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}