{"product_id":"baker-david-whale-fall","title":"Baker, David: Whale Fall [HC]","description":"\u003cp\u003eNorton, hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: July 19, 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: Acclaimed 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\n\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\n\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","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40321963753495,"sku":"9781324020639","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/ibg.common.titledetail_51603630-6dce-4b73-81db-307c9ad78965.gif?v=1664057115","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/baker-david-whale-fall","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}