{"product_id":"kelly-m-m-unbalancinpb","title":"[09\/15\/26] Kelly, M.M.: Unbalancing Act","description":"\u003cp\u003eFour Way Books, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: September 15, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnbalancing Act\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a haunting collection of poems about the particular physics of loving and losing--about the way grief, desire, memory, and awe can tip a life off its axis, and right it again. The speaker moves through fire and water, childhood, intimacy and abandonment, always with one eye on the natural world: bears, whales, rivers, storms, animals sleeping in impossible ways. The poems are lyric but narrative-driven, often darkly funny, and fascinated--bordering on obsessed--with the strange facts and small surrealities that make ordinary life feel mythic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt its heart, the book is about imbalance as a kind of truth: the way trauma warps time, the way love can feel like weather, the way the body keeps trying to survive even when the mind wants to disappear. It's a collection for readers who like their beauty a little feral--poems that are tender but not precious, intelligent but not academic, and emotionally sharp without ever losing their sense of wonder.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45143462117399,"sku":"9781961897922","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/71mRse5SorL._SL1500.jpg?v=1783194018","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/kelly-m-m-unbalancinpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}