{"product_id":"dingman-chelsea-thaw","title":"Dingman, Chelsea: Thaw","description":"\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Georgia Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: \u003cspan\u003eSeptember 15, 2017\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThaw\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003edelves into the issues at the core of a resilient family: kinship, poverty, violence, death, abuse, and grief. The poems follow the speaker, as both mother and daughter, as she travels through harsh and beautiful landscapes in Canada, Sweden, and the United States. Moving through these places, she examines how her surroundings affect her inner landscape; the natural world becomes both a place of refuge and a threat. As these themes unfold, the histories and cold truths of her family and country intertwine and impinge on her, even as she tries to outrun them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUnflinching and raw, Chelsea Dingman's poems meander between childhood and adulthood, the experiences of being a mother and a child paralleling one another. Her investigation becomes one of body, self, woman, mother, daughter, sister, and citizen, and of what those roles mean in the contexts of family and country.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817196072983,"sku":"9780820351315","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/9780820351315.jpg?v=1768003688","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/dingman-chelsea-thaw","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}