{"product_id":"novey-idra-soon-and-whb","title":"Novey, Idra: Soon and Wholly (HB)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWesleyan University Press, hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: September 3, 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: New poetry by the author of acclaimed 2023 novel Take What You Need faces the complexities of life on a swiftly heating earth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIdra Novey's first collection in a decade, since Patricia Smith chose \u003ci\u003eExit, Civilian\u003c\/i\u003e for the National Poetry Series, brings a lyric intimacy to the extremes of our era. The poems juxtapose sweltering days raising children in a city with moments from a rural childhood roaming free in the woods, providing a bridge between those often polarized realities. Novey's spare, contemporary fables move across the Americas, from a woman housesitting in central Chile, surrounded by encroaching fires, to a man in New York about to give birth to a panda.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOther poems return to the Allegheny Highlands of Appalachia, where Novey revisits the roads and creeks of her childhood: \"Maybe we knew we only appeared\/to be floating, but soon and wholly\/we'd go under.\" Like Lydia Davis and Anne Carson, Novey draws from the well of her work translating myriad authors, from Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector to Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian, and from her own award-winning novels. These are deeply lived poems, evoking both a singular life and the shared urgencies of our time, a collection of great inventiveness and wit, conjuring our \"bit part in the history of the future.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43501876969495,"sku":"9780819501288","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/71LHIHUJzQL._UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1759963808","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/novey-idra-soon-and-whb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}