{"product_id":"meek-sandra-bindpb","title":"[01\/26\/27] Meek, Sandra: Bind","description":"\u003cp\u003ePersea, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: January 26, 2027\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUsing an erroneous etymology from Dante as a springboard, the urgent, darkly comic poems in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBind\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eattend to the music and profound wordplay that emerge from the Sandra Meek's deep attention to place. Set in locales as far-flung as Borneo and as close to home as the rural Georgia college where Meek teaches, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBind\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e grapples with the dilemma of accelerating environmental destruction, which connects us despite political insistence on us-vs.-them divisions. Concerned with wildness and capture, with species on the brink, ranging from the Indri indri of Madagascar to the edible-nest swiftlets of Borneo, the power and pleasure of language here is as tangible as the beauty of the natural world the poet seeks out in all its surviving incarnations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45361786617879,"sku":"9780892556540","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/81bn1WNFknL._SL1500.jpg?v=1786314763","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/meek-sandra-bindpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}