{"product_id":"a-year-other-poems-by-jos-charles","title":"a Year \u0026 other poems by Jos Charles","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the celebrated author of feeld comes a formally commanding third collection, dexterously recounting the survival of a period suffused with mourning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJos Charles’s poems communicate with one another as neurons do: sharp, charged, in language that predates language. “A scandal \/ three cartons red \/ in a hedge \/ in \/ each the thousand eye research of flies.” With acute lyricism, she documents how a person endures seemingly relentless devastation―California wildfires, despotic legislation, housing insecurity―amid illusions of safety. “I wanted to believe,” Charles declares, “a corner a print leaned to \/ a corner can save \/ a people.” Still the house falls apart. Death visits and lingers. Belief proves, again and again, that belief alone is not enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet miraculously, one might still manage to seek―propelled by love, or hope, or sometimes only momentum―something better. There is a place where there are no futile longings, no persistent institutional threats to one’s life. Poems might take us there; tenderness, too, as long as we can manage to keep moving. “A current \/ gives as much as it has,” writes Charles―despite fire, despite loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarrowing and gorgeous, a Year \u0026amp; other poems is an astonishing new collection from a poet of “unusual beauty and lyricism” (New Yorker).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"White Rose Books \u0026 More","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51150306541856,"sku":"9781639550227","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9781639550227.jpg?v=1769236567","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/es\/products\/a-year-other-poems-by-jos-charles","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}