{"product_id":"the-miraculous-sometimes","title":"The Miraculous, Sometimes","description":"Used paperback in Good condition. \u003cp\u003eWinner of a MIPA Silver Medal for Poetry. MIRACULOUS 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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shevenock, Meg","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":53876192608539,"sku":"mon0000693161","price":92.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/4004\/3291\/files\/6179423482805.jpg?v=1788531108","url":"https:\/\/bookalley.com\/products\/the-miraculous-sometimes","provider":"Book Alley","version":"1.0","type":"link"}