{"product_id":"9780982106624","title":"Out of Refusal","description":"\u003cbr\u003ePoetry. In this book, poems compelled by the subjects of family history, parenthood, divorce, and the death of a brother become acts of witness and forgiveness. OUT OF REFUSAL to turn away from love and its inevitable loss, new ground is created: poems of lament become songs of creation.\u003cp\u003e\"OUT OF REFUSAL rises from the hardness of sorrow, from the glittering shards of grief, '… transforming \/ cold surfaces of what \/ is yet to be learned \/ into an offering….' These poems wrestle with profound absence and terrible loss, yet celebrate the hard-won knowledge '…that love is \/ out of all negatives \/ a shadow on the water of possibility \/ the soul of light and stones, what gives stones depth….' With moving trope and imagery, with resonant music, Carter gives us song that 'blooms from stone.'\"—Paulann Petersen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The poems of Carter McKenzie's OUT OF REFUSAL map the difficult territory of a family's prejudice, children growing and turning away, a brother's death…. [W]hat we learn in reading these unsettling and often radiant poems is that change can and does occur as poem after poem forms a witness born out of what she cannot ignore and refuses to forget in a necessary and moving journey toward acceptance.\"—Maxine Scates\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Her voices are both ordinary and extraordinary. Their telling lights up experience, the way Orion lights 'in the dark before morning…transforming the cold \/ as I see it \/ into companions.'\"—Erik Muller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Grounded in the mysteries and solace of the natural world, replete with exquisite imagery and lyrical turns of phrase…these poems know '[I]t is never \/ over, cycles of sun and darkness.' Yet here is a poet who knows how 'to go out alone \/ on my own ship \/ every day,' offering us ways to live that are both resilient and transformative.\"—Alison Townsend\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Airlie Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47034428358896,"sku":"9780982106624","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780982106624_p0.jpg?v=1763885644","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780982106624","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}