{"product_id":"otremba-paul-leveepb","title":"Otremba, Paul: Levee","description":"\u003cp\u003eFour Way, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: September 03, 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: The poems in Paul Otremba's Levee explore the intersection between the ecological, the political, and the personal in a world built on oil and greed. The city of Houston is at once backdrop and metaphor for the ways in which violence--both natural and manmade--have become part and parcel of twenty-first century life. \"It's a luxury to be this calm,\" Otremba writes in the opening poem, a held-breath between the disastrous effects of hurricanes and cancer. Yet Otremba's exquisite lines manage to wrest meaning from the devastation wrought by both global warming and a terminal illness: \"If there is a lesson \/ on how not to worry, it's that you're not stuck only being one thing, \/the multitudes in me and the multitudes in you.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817275633687,"sku":"9781945588419","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/61kSP1kdRmL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1744843029","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/otremba-paul-leveepb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}