{"product_id":"radioland-by-lesley-wheeler","title":"Wheeler, Lesley: Radioland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRadioland \u003c\/em\u003eby Lesley Wheeler (Barrow Street Press, paperback)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 1, 2015\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: Poetry. \"Lesley Wheeler's new volume of poems, RADIOLAND, spellbinds with the gorgeous sounds of its poetry: 'Drag belly over gravel on a cave-lip \/ into the TV and sleep in it,' one poem opens. Note the insouciant forging of ancient and quotidian scenes, the modulation of vowels punctuated by v's: I'm hooked! Wheeler is, among other glories, a consummate formalist, but she is also profound in her exploration of the governing trope of this collection: the deeply human struggles in which families engage to be receptors and transmitters of love (the crisis brought to a head by the unforgiven father's death). In RADIOLAND's disturbed emissions and reception, we cannot always tell what's '[s]ignal and noise,' but at the borderland to the absolute, Wheeler is surefooted in her exploration of love's echoing 'parley' in the world.\"—Cynthia Hogue\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31337262317591,"sku":"9780989329682","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/content_8967fb18-b334-42aa-b04f-e76c5ab3968f.jpg?v=1586745699","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/radioland-by-lesley-wheeler","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}