{"product_id":"chabitnoy-abigail-in-the-cur","title":"Chabitnoy, Abigail: In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful","description":"\u003cp\u003eWesleyan University Press, hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: November 1, 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: A poetic re-visioning of narratives of violence against women and nature.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on water, land, women, and violent environmental changes as they affect both the natural world and human migration. The poet reckons with the unsettling realities that women experience, questioning the cause and effect of events and asking why stories of oppression are so often simply accepted as the only stories. Alutiiq language is used throughout these poems that are in conversation with history, ancestors, and an uncertain future, in imagery that moves in waves, returning again and again to the ocean, and a deep visioning of the current. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExcerpt from IN THE FIELD \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThey asked me if I was a citizen. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThey wanted to know what I had seen\/ \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI had heard\/ \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethis was only a test: \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLook at the mark and tell them what you see. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e[...]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40334027980823,"sku":"9780819500120","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/ibg.common.titledetail_ef322377-bddb-40c2-8d52-8a81fae61177.gif?v=1664676469","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/chabitnoy-abigail-in-the-cur","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}