{"product_id":"shevenock-meg-the-miraculous-sometimes","title":"Shevenock, Meg: The Miraculous, Sometimes","description":"\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e\u003c!--\ntd {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}\n--\u003e\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Miraculous, Sometimes\u003c\/em\u003e by Meg Shevenock (Conduit Books \u0026amp; Ephemera, paperback)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: March 25, 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \"\u003cspan\u003eMIRACULOUS is undoubtedly a hybrid work, but always firmly grounded in poetics. Conceptually, the narration echoes the effects of trauma: sometimes the writing unfolds in long prose poems, while at other times, a single fragment may appear alone on the page. Occasionally, multiple commas splice the language, as fear interrupts the flow of speech. Structurally, these devices are united through a series of repeated images that function as through-lines, weaving the narrative's various threads. For instance, birds frequently appear, the symbol, according to the ancient Greeks, of life continued, and a notion the narrator clings to: 'birds don't die \/ only pass into the bodies of other birds.' Like the faded balloon string the narrator finds on the street, the arrival of a bird bears a message that she needs—and needs enough to note—creating order within a landscape of grief, a system of meaning where life would otherwise be too frail.\u003c\/span\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31480621924375,"sku":"9781733602037","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/shevenock.jpg?v=1589574879","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/shevenock-meg-the-miraculous-sometimes","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}