{"product_id":"desautels-chelsea-b-a-dangerous-place-copy","title":"DesAutels, Chelsea B.: A Dangerous Place","description":"\u003cp\u003eSarabande Books, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 19, 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: Early in her powerful, affecting debut, DesAutels writes: \"I always mention gratitude because\/people like that ending.\" Unflinching in its candor, this is the story of a woman with two swellings in her belly: a nascent baby, and a cancerous tumor. The poet could focus on the particulars of the medical case, using language from a traditional illness narrative. Instead she gives us the basics, then gathers up surprising and expansive material from various landscapes--the Black Hills, the prairies of Texas, the mountains, switchgrass, and, especially, the neighboring buffalo, to which she feels a profound connection. DesAutels' metaphors strike home; they are counterpoints, balm to the uncertainty and grief that make us uncomfortable. The book moves elegantly from its dark beginnings to a transcendent thankfulness. With healing lyricism, she writes: \"And I imagine the white sheets as heron wings.\/And the whirring machines are white eggs.\/And the worried voices are sunlight on water.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44224914653207,"sku":"9781946448866","price":7.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/cbd.gif?v=1619820258","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/desautels-chelsea-b-a-dangerous-place-copy","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}