{"product_id":"busch-colleen-morton-smolderpb","title":"[06\/22\/26] Busch, Colleen Morton: Smolder","description":"\u003cp\u003eEx Ophidia Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: June 22, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSmolder\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e takes its title from a diagnosis the author's husband received two decades ago, of smoldering multiple myeloma--a treatable but incurable blood cancer. At the time, in this early stage of illness, the prescribed treatment was to watch and wait for myeloma to cause problems. Plucked from the natural world and placed among arid clinical terms and bewildering medical advice, this lush word--smolder--sparks a collection of poems about the many kinds of fire blazing inside a life. Fires of grief, lust, loss, rage, uncertainty and acceptance. The poems in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSmolder\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e are about tending to aliveness. They're love poems elegies, prayers, howls, meditations. Together, they illuminate what it means to live with the open flame of a tender heart.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45195766890519,"sku":"9799885711902","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/Draw_book_dae82bdb-4686-4c2d-becc-6fe323600c33.png?v=1780788746","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/busch-colleen-morton-smolderpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}