{"product_id":"grace-engine-9780299341640","title":"Grace Engine","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Words carry the dead like henchmen,’ in Joshua Burton’s extraordinary debut volume, \u003cem\u003eGrace Engine\u003c\/em\u003e. These spare and powerful poems are like pallbearers, like eulogists, like survivors, like battered souls hoping and dreaming for a future that may never be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“No poet I’ve worked with in forty years’ teaching has wowed me more with his talent \u0026amp; smarts \u0026amp; heart than young Joshua Burton. His first collection, \u003ci\u003eGrace Engine\u003c\/i\u003e, is destined to be this year’s star debut.”—Mary Karr “One of the most compelling books I have read this year. But what does that mean? It means that we are invited to enter the landscape where the speaker's ‘been having \/ a different relationship \/ with ghosts.’ It means that history is a catastrophe but a grandmother can turn ‘looking into a language, a season \/ whittled down to degrees.’ It means that the empire corrodes but there is still music which these pages unearth and offer, as a consolation, perhaps, no as evidence: evidence that the soul lives despite the terror of this time. Because Burton knows that ‘wind from a mouth can coax the flame into living,’ \u003ci\u003eGrace Engine\u003c\/i\u003e is inconsolable and yet consoling. A very beautiful book.”—Ilya Kaminsky, author of \u003ci\u003eDeaf Republic \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Dancing in Odessa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI\u003cbr\u003e The Hearing We Inherit 7\u003cbr\u003e Grace \u0026amp; Pity 10\u003cbr\u003e Death\/Machine\/Ruin 12\u003cbr\u003e Grace Division 13\u003cbr\u003e To those who count suicide as a spiritual warfare addendum 15\u003cbr\u003e Royal 16\u003cbr\u003e Man in a Hole 17\u003cbr\u003e Death\/Machine\/Ruin 20\u003cbr\u003e Elegy for Threats with Grace 21\u003cbr\u003e Death\/Machine\/Ruin 24\u003cbr\u003e Bayou City Season 25\u003cbr\u003e Grace \u0026amp; Separation 28\u003cbr\u003e A Consequence (Passing) 30\u003cbr\u003e Ten Stories 34\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We\u003cbr\u003e The Mirror Myth 37\u003cbr\u003e To those who think I won’t set this country afire with me still in it 42\u003cbr\u003e A Constant Conjunction 43\u003cbr\u003e ( )\u003cbr\u003e Giving Jim Grace 47\u003cbr\u003e Prophet Royal Robertson 49\u003cbr\u003e Giving Mary Grace 50\u003cbr\u003e To those who know how to unthreat oneself 52\u003cbr\u003e The Worst Houston 53\u003cbr\u003e Grace Engine 55\u003cbr\u003e Giving Laura Grace 57\u003cbr\u003e Grace as Kin as Sin as Skin 59\u003cbr\u003e A Confession 60\u003cbr\u003e As I Grace Myself into a Rephrasing Freedom 62\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes 63\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments 65","brand":"MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036937716055,"sku":"9780299341640","price":13.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780299341640.jpg?v=1750933104","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/grace-engine-9780299341640","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}