{"product_id":"bitsui-sherwin-the-next-spb","title":"[09\/01\/26] Bitsui, Sherwin: The Next Sky","description":"\u003cp\u003eCopper Canyon Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: September 1, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Next Sky\u003c\/i\u003e, history haunts and poems grapple with nostalgia and pain, the ancient and contemporary, to make sense of the places they intersect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePulsing with evocative voice and imagery, Sherwin Bitsui's \u003ci\u003eThe Next Sky\u003c\/i\u003e ruminates on humanity's past, present, and future. From fragmented and surreal, to haunted and intimate, poems navigate ideas of culture and identity through explorations of land, place, and nature. As coyotes bleed, birds harmonize, and the sun beams, Bitsui questions where every living being fits into the puzzle of the natural world. Here, the ancient and timeless collide with modern and temporal. \"insisting: dusk is just skin \/ worn on faces,\" Bitsui affirms that beauty is an inevitability of living.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45118184816663,"sku":"9781556597336","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/81_mgypsLgL._SL1500.jpg?v=1778888664","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/bitsui-sherwin-the-next-spb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}