{"product_id":"the-local-world-wick-first-book-9781606351055","title":"The Local World (Wick First Book)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMira Rosenthals The Local World incorporates deeply lived experience and mystery in a fluent shape-shifting that can take you anywhere and bring you back  changed. The poems are beautifully crafted narratives of loss  travel  and salvage. There is a damaged family at the heart of these poems  an abandoned farm  and many rooms  parks  and train cars in far places. Yet  like all really good poems  Rosenthals language consistently rises above its cries to wonder and beauty. What a joy to find this stunning first book to award the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. Maggie Anderson  Judge In Mira Rosenthals stunning debut collection  The Local World  memory is not a static screen for nostalgia but a fierce journey into the self where danger resides. These beautifully crafted poems work through a series of brilliant tropes  a tissue pattern resting over a piece of cloth  a knife cutting from the inside  a boy shadow-boxing with himself  a sunflower like the mast of ship rising tall. Rosenthal is both a traveler and a thinker. Her poems  elegant marvels  dramatize her personal struggle to understand and transform the past. This is a dynamic book one to read and reread.Maura Stanton The poems in this stark collection feel as if they have arrived just after casting off emotional ballast. A burden has been carried from the familiar world  and over time and distance  that load has been dispersed. And now the poet returns  halfway between grief and transcendence  but in that dark return lies hope.Maurice Manning\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45116108963893,"sku":"ByrdShop_1606351052","price":90.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781606351055.jpg?v=1776023824","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-local-world-wick-first-book-9781606351055","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}