{"product_id":"kwasny-melissa-where-outspb","title":"Kwasny, Melissa: Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today","description":"\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Washington Press, hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 02, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today comprises two interwoven series--one of linked prose poems called \"Another Letter to the Soul\" and one of individual lined poems that explore the connection between anima and animal. The volume speaks to and questions the ancient concept of the soul and its contemporary manifestations, including the damaged soul, the American soul, and the blind, gagged soul of history.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMelissa Kwasny does not define the soul in traditional religious terms, but in a shamanic, perhaps ecological sense, as the part of being that continues its existence after death. The poems in \"Another Letter to the Soul\" point inward, addressing the human soul directly, while the individual lined poems search outward, sensing the soul in the plants, animals, rocks, waters, and winds that surround us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40679353221143,"sku":"9780295742441","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/view_archive_e1fddff5-3e33-4420-9bfd-1c8fc412e58e.jpg?v=1697661944","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/kwasny-melissa-where-outspb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}