{"product_id":"flood-song-9781556593086","title":"Flood Song","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sherwin Bitsui''s new poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eFlood Song—\u003c\/i\u003ea sprawling, panoramic journey through landscape, time, and cultures—is well worth the ride.\"—\u003ci\u003ePoets \u0026amp; Writers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Bitsui’s poetry is elegant, probative, and original. His vision connects worlds.”—\u003ci\u003eNew Mexico Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“His images can tilt on the side of surrealism, yet his work can be compellingly accessible.”—\u003ci\u003eArizona Daily Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cb\u003eSherwin Bitsui\u003c\/b\u003e sees violent beauty in the American landscape. There are junipers, black ants, axes, and cities dragging their bridges. I can hear Whitman''s drums in these poems and I can see Ginsberg''s supermarkets. But above all else, there is an indigenous eccentricity, ‘a cornfield at the bottom of a sandstone canyon,’ that you will not find anywhere else.”—\u003cb\u003eSherman Alexie\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNative traditions scrape against contemporary urban life in \u003ci\u003eFlood Song\u003c\/i\u003e, an interweaving painterly sequence populated with wrens and reeds, bricks and gasoline. Poet \u003cb\u003eSherwin Bitsui\u003c\/b\u003e is at the forefront of a new generation of Native writers who resist being identified solely by race. At the same time, he comes from a traditional indigenous family and \u003ci\u003eFlood Song\u003c\/i\u003e is filled with allusions to Dine (Navajo) myths, customs, and traditions. Highly imagistic and constantly in motion, his poems draw variously upon medicine song and contemporary language and poetics. “I map a shrinking map,” he writes, and “bite my eyes shut between these songs.” An astonishing, elemental volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI retrace and trace over my fingerprints\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHere: magma,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethere: shore,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eand on the peninsula of his finger pointing west—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ea bell rope woven from optic nerves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eis tethered to mustangs galloping from a nation lifting its first page\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ethrough the man hole—burn marks in the saddle horn,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003estatic in the ear that cannot sever cries from wailing.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSherwin Bitsui\u003c\/b\u003e’s acclaimed first book of poems, \u003ci\u003eShapeshift\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 2003. He has earned many honors for his work, including fellowships from the Witter Bynner Foundation and Lannan Foundation, and he is frequently invited to poetry festivals throughout the world. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359611224407,"sku":"9781556593086","price":16.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781556593086.jpg?v=1754125171","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/flood-song-9781556593086","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}