{"product_id":"09-13-22-johnson-elsa-the-wind-speaks","title":"Johnson, Elsa: The Wind Speaks","description":"\u003cp\u003eGreen Writers Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: September 13, 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: Winner of the 2020 Hopper Poetry Prize What would you get if a Taoist monk sat down with Wendell Berry, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Sappho, and G.M. Hopkins to write sonnets that banish conventions of form, structure, \u0026amp; meter, while creating new parameters within which to start, stop, surge, yield, twist, turn, open, close. These poems beg to be spoken aloud; each finds a singular cadence, tension, perspective, to bring to the natural world fresh and sometimes unusual voices (a poem in the voice of a praying mantis? ...vulture? ...whippoorwill?) Bit by bit, they work from the observed and\/or fantasized, to get to the internal, the personal, to a celebratory grief.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40275193921559,"sku":"9781950584956","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/ibg.common.titledetail_2ec9488f-c86a-4881-8e06-e50fb7a32f2b.gif?v=1661890613","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/09-13-22-johnson-elsa-the-wind-speaks","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}