{"product_id":"mccadden-kerrin-american-wake-copy","title":"McCadden, Kerrin: American Wake","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlack Sparrow Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: March 23, 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: New from a poet whose astonishing images, emotional honesty, and storytelling power hold a singular clarity of vision. \"\u003ci\u003eAmerican Wake\u003c\/i\u003e slows things down that are speeding past and wakes us up to the past and present tense. I love its worried wakefulness\" (Edward Hirsch).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn \"American wake\" is what the Irish call a farewell to those emigrating to the United States. A New England poet equally at home in Ireland, Kerrin McCadden explores family, death and grief, apologies, and all manner of departures. In the poem \"In the Harbor,\" McCadden writes:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen we are out to sea, we look back to see faces\u003cbr\u003eringing the shore like a fence, those we love in up\u003cbr\u003eto their hips in waves, waving goodbye like mad.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncluded in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Wake\u003c\/i\u003e are the poems, \"My Broken Family,\" \"Weeks After My Brother Overdoses,\" \"One Way to Apologize to a Daughter for Careless Words,\" \"Portrait of the Family as a Definition,\" and \"My Mother Talks to Her Son about Her Heart.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection by a writer of extraordinary gifts will appeal to readers who believe in the potential of carefully hewn words to unveil our world and our deepest feelings to ourselves. As the acclaimed memoirist Nick Flynn (\u003ci\u003eAnother Bullshit Night in Suck City\u003c\/i\u003e) puts it: \"Kerrin McCadden transforms tragedy into myth.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44210223415319,"sku":"9781574232479","price":8.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/km.gif?v=1611275072","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/mccadden-kerrin-american-wake-copy","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}