{"product_id":"gallagher-kristen-new-americpb","title":"Gallagher, Kristen: New American Summer","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpiral Editions, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: May 15, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"a dog at the beach staring at the horizon is ridiculous and sweet. I feel ridiculous up late writing to see if anything good happens maybe that’s a problem I think it’s magic instead of skill maybe that’s the world’s problem they were taught it’s skill and not magic I keep writing hoping to find out whatever I find out\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKristen sez: \"A selection of poems arriving from notebooks I kept from 2020 thru 2026. A release of some ongoing correspondences (as in Spicer): riding the colonial-era backroads, rehabilitating my mother’s garden, and learning death’s dark humor in haunted Pennsylvania. Back and forth to Queens; union organizing as resisting the “normal.” Learning a poetry with no final outcome: an interruption, a snapshot, a negotiated truce…\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe say: These are poems for park bench and bedside, for out loud recitation under or not under trees; small amulets that act as convex psychedelic mirrors to our known world, signposts and premonitions to the world we'd like to know. \"there are only seven minutes in eternity \/ the rest is phenomenal life \/ false gods, graffiti and \/ the glue of existence.\" It's a bit of poetry church: softly Schuyler, softly Tu Fu. Like a small distant star that brings an agreeable amount of warmth and light, just enough to reveal the true bits under the dermis of the fake world--and one that we might be able to slightly bend our own ears and eyes to hear and witness the scratches and songs illumined and light-cast. A book made for a back pocket.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45195764203543,"sku":"9775003160204","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/1778867439-900.png?v=1780794469","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/gallagher-kristen-new-americpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}