{"product_id":"marks-justin-if-this-sh","title":"Marks, Justin: If This Should Reach You in Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eBarrelhouse, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: December 15, 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: IF THIS SHOULD REACH YOU IN TIME sounds the alarm of climate change and democratic collapse with tender lament and guarded hope from award-winning poet Justin Marks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"There's no way around \/ not being part \/ of the problem\" Marks writes in \"Along for the Ride,\" \"The best case scenario \/ is long term disaster\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his fourth collection of poetry, Marks renders global threats as intimate and personal. As we turn inward, terror and sadness take hold. This is a book of crisis and dread, both human and spiritual.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough these poems, we see what could be and what might have been. In the titular poem, Marks writes \"...know \/ that we didn't see \/ the disaster coming \/ That it wasn't \/ imaginable, hadn't \/ existed until, gradually \/ it was, and did \/ Or that we saw it \/ and refused to believe \/ Or saw it and thought \/ something or someone \/ else would save us.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40465048862743,"sku":"9798985008913","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/ibg.common.titledetail_79103e9d-a17f-4828-b614-bccddb1e593a.gif?v=1672271779","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/marks-justin-if-this-sh","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}