{"product_id":"fruit-9780299326746","title":"Fruit","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBruce Snider's third poetry collection grapples with what it means to be childless in a world obsessed with procreation. Poems move between the scientific and the biblical, effortlessly sliding from the clinical landscape of a sperm bank to Mount Moriah as Abraham prepares Isaac for sacrifice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginal and rhapsodic, rich in tender details, Snider's beautiful book is driven by acceptance: the rarest of spiritual fruits.\" - Spencer Reece, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Road to Emmaus\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Clerk's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Snider's ravishing new collection examines the ways family is made - the histories we come from, our choices in who and what to nurture. Here are elegies for the self, litanies for the dead, a childlessness both mourned and celebrated, a life ripe with every hurt and desire.\" - Traci Brimhall, author of \u003ci\u003eSaudade\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOur Lady of the Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Deeply felt and beautifully built, \u003ci\u003eFruit\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable book that braids yearning and endurance into sweeping and exquisite music.\" - Eduardo C. Corral, author of \u003ci\u003eGuillotine\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSlow Lightning\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Blue Whale Has the Largest Heart of Any Living Creature 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI. Homo 7\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLitany for My Father's Sperm 8\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChildless 10\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFruit 11\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreation Myth 13\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMy Uncle's Barn Cat as the Shadow of Death 14\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChildless 15\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn Swallowing the Fourth Plague of Egypt 16\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBecause Eden, from the Hebrew, Meant Pleasure 17\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChildless 19\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEllipsis, Dash, Bullet Point 20\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCleaning My Father's Rifle 22\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThey Will Not Eat the Bird of Paradise 25\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy My Father Smells Like the Night 27\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChildless 28\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfter Reading the Wikipedia Entry on Homosexual Behavior in Moths 29\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInside the Creation Museum 30\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Average Human 32\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChildless 34\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChemistry 35\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn Billy Lucas, Who Hanged Himself in His Grandmother's Barn 37\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eII. Devotions 41\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIII. Twin Peaks Bar, San Francisco 47\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChildless 49\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eToy Box 50\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShelter 51\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElegy for the Girl I Was 55\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChildless 56\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLitany for My Father's Guns 57\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStill Life with Cows 59\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt's the Dog 61\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChildless 63\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAt the Sperm Bank 64\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrayer for the Bear My Father Shot 65\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElegy for the Bully 66\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHeaven and Earth 67\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMendel on His Death Bed 70\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChildless 72\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreation Myth 73\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTerritory 74\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne Day, He Said, I'd Carry on the Family Name 76\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrutti di Mare 77\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments 81\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036936700247,"sku":"9780299326746","price":15.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780299326746.jpg?v=1750933101","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fruit-9780299326746","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}