{"product_id":"they-lift-their-wings-to-cry","title":"They Lift Their Wings to Cry","description":"Brooks Haxtons poetry has celebrated for thirty years our troubled pleasures in the daily world. This new collection  titled after a meditation on the cry of the snowy tree cricket  gives us his most moving response to the ferocious beauty of nature and to the folly and magnificence of human undertakings.  In the opening poem  the poet comes home drunk without his key  collapses in the yard  and looks up to where  he says: Whorls of a magnetic field exfoliated under the solar wind  so that the northern lights above me trembled. No: that was the porch light blurred by tears.  With this self-deprecating wit and tenderness toward human failings  these poems search through history into the wilderness of our origins  and through the self into the mysterious presences of people we love.  A master of moodsas when a poem of grief after the death of a friend becomes a sprightly litany of her favorite wildflowersHaxton is a poet who summons essences of thought and feeling in a few words  creating both narratives and miniatures that are rich in possibility beyond the page.  ISAACS ROOM  EMPTY  4 A.M.  From the dark tree at his window blossoms battered by the rain fell into the summer grass  white horns  all spattered down the throat with purple ink  while unseen birds  with creaks and peeps and whistles  started the machinery of daybreak.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44658972917813,"sku":"ByrdShop_0307268454","price":94.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0307268454_c9000c76-6390-4674-bff4-6c24dc720775.jpg?v=1770259172","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/they-lift-their-wings-to-cry","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}