{"product_id":"gone-thing","title":"Gone Thing","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eGone Thing\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMonica McClure\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781959708056\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eWinter Editions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2023\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMonica McClure's second poetry collection excavates inheritances--historical, cultural, familial, and economic--as it alternates between magnified and microscopic views of American life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in rural Texas in 1986, the oldest of seven children, and once described by Craig Teicher of NPR as \"the poster-girl for a new generation of poets,\" McClure revises the nuances of class, race, and clashing identities in a polyvocal style that flows out of her experience as an ambiguous academic turned ambivalent corporate creative; a firsthand witness to rural poverty and its colonial origins; a white Chicana with a vexed position in American society; an educated urbanite with a deep connection to the folklore and wisdom of her agricultural-worker ancestors. THE GONE THING upends traditions of pastoral poetry and bucolic subject matter, using the allegory of land stewardship to sketch a jagged narrative of personal and collective loss. Sometimes self-conscious, often unequivocally sincere, the lines that compose these poems lull and jolt their way across different landscapes: barren political realms, the author's own fertile body, a suffering natural world, and an amnesiac society, in which the speaker works, shops, marvels, suffers, and doesn't die.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Winter Editions","offers":[{"title":"Gone Thing | Monica McClure | Paperback | 9781959708056 | New | Poetry 1582550","offer_id":50623263146242,"sku":"1582550","price":34.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/81S0DJi9Q6L.jpg?v=1791201987","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/gone-thing","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}