{"product_id":"schlegel-rob-in-the-trepb","title":"Schlegel, Rob: In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps","description":"\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Iowa Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: April 01, 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003cspan\u003eWith calm abandon, Rob Schlegel stands among the genderless trees to shake notions of masculinity and fatherhood. Schlegel incorporates the visionary into everyday life, inhabiting patterns of relation that do not rely on easy categories. Working from the premise that poetry is indistinguishable from the life of the poet, Schlegel considers how his relationship to the creative process is forever changed when he becomes something new to someone else. \"The meaning I'm trying to protect is,\" Schlegel writes, \"the heart is neither boy, nor girl.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a tender search for the mother in the father, the poet in the parent, the forest in the human.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817241751575,"sku":"9781609386450","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/61rgadcgtML._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1719529309","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/schlegel-rob-in-the-trepb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}