{"product_id":"dear-specimen-9780807007594","title":"Dear Specimen","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA National Poetry Series winner, selected and with a foreword by Kwame Dawes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 5-part series of interwoven poems from a dying parent to her daughter, examining the human capacity for grief, culpability, and love, asking: do we as a species deserve to survive?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDear Specimen\u003c\/i\u003e opens with both its speaker and her planet in peril. In “Speak to Me,” she puzzles over a millipede, as if the blue rune of its body could help her understand her impending death and the crisis her species has created. Throughout the collection, poems addressed to specimens echo the speaker’s concern and amplify her wonderment. A catalog of our climate transgressions, \u003ci\u003eDear Specimen\u003c\/i\u003e’s final poem foretells a future in which climate refugees overrun one of our planet’s last habitable places.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe collection’s lifeblood is a series of poems in which the speaker and her daughter express their concern for, and devotion to, one another. The","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527750328663,"sku":"9780807007594","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780807007594.jpg?v=1731869095","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dear-specimen-9780807007594","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}