{"product_id":"peterson-lee-in-the-hal","title":"Peterson, Lee: In the Hall of North American Mammals","description":"\u003cp\u003eCider Press Review, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: January 10, 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: Winner of the 2021 Cider Press Review Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\r\r\r\u003cp\u003eLee Peterson's manuscript, IN THE HALL OF NORTH AMERICAN MAMMALS, won the 2021 CPR Book Award. \"A grandmother, the wolf, and a landscape of hills lit by dusk and snow populate Peterson's radiant new collection,\" notes Shara McCallum. Author Sally Rosen Kindred writes, \"The poems of Lee Peterson's \u003ci\u003eIn the Hall of North American Mammals\u003c\/i\u003e explore the haunting, dangerous borders between story and reality, domestic and wild, mother and child. These poems are meditations crafted in the terror of familial love.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\r\r\u003cp\u003e\"The poems of Lee Peterson's \u003ci\u003eIn the Hall of North American Mammals\u003c\/i\u003e explore the haunting, dangerous borders between story and reality, domestic and wild, mother and child. These poems are meditations crafted in the terror of familial love. And they are bold navigations, crossing liminal spaces, using a luminous intensity of voice to map intimacy, mortality. With lyric acuity they sound the seams between worlds, revealing mother as both 'witch and protector,' the story and its teller, one who must perform on the highwire and pray for feet fastened to the ground. Peterson's deft poems cross a ropewalk of mother-love, knowing what they dare. Hold your breath for their fierce power.\" —Sally Rosen Kindred, author of \u003ci\u003eWhere the Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\r\r\r\r\r\u003cp\u003e\"A grandmother, the wolf, and a landscape of hills lit by dusk and snow populate Peterson's radiant new collection. Frequently dwelling in the world of fairytale, Peterson trains her lens on mother-love and the sublime act of mothering: 'With one hand I lift you up\/with the other I set you down, set you out.' Showcasing Peterson's spare images and Dickinsonian-dash-inflected lines, \u003ci\u003eIn the Hall of North American Mammals\u003c\/i\u003e evokes the fierce and tender tether between mother and child.\" —Shara McCallum, author of \u003ci\u003eNo Ruined Stone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\r\r\r\r\r\u003cp\u003e\"Jean Valentine describes Lee Peterson's first book, \u003ci\u003eRoom and Fields: Dramatic Monologues from the War in Bosnia\u003c\/i\u003e, as 'compassionate and single-mindedly alive to its high purpose.' Peterson's second full-length collection, \u003ci\u003eIn the Hall of North American Mammals\u003c\/i\u003e, continues with as much heart and intention, though the subject has changed. These poems, spare and intimate, come from 'inside of the inside of [Peterson's] voice,' speaking to her daughter's place in the natural world, the world in her daughter. Splendid, moving, and enlivened, this book takes me beyond the old models and myths, beyond what I already know, to a place both familiar and strange.\" —Blas Falconer, author of \u003ci\u003eForgive the Body This Failure\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40476045967383,"sku":"9781930781795","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/9781930781795.jpg?v=1673471074","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/peterson-lee-in-the-hal","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}