{"product_id":"9780983325499","title":"The Boy Who Slept Under the Stars: A Memoir in Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This a book about that place inside us all where bafflement meets mystery: a strange place, sometimes frightening and sometimes filled with stars and pines, clear flowing water and the deep joy of companionship.\"—Jim Moore\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoseann Lloyd's new poetry collection takes us on a sister's unflinching exploration into grief for a brother lost on a solo hike in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota. His clothes are found but not his body. How does one mourn without a body? This absence calls up memories of his life and mixed emotions; it evokes other disappearances—children missing in Iraq, climbers lost on Everest, a college student drowned.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEven though I've said, for two years now, I don't need his body\u003cbr\u003eto do my mourning, I'm suddenly desperate\u003cbr\u003eto touch your arms, muscled and tan . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFull of verbal energy and rich patterns of sound, Lloyd's lines are allowed to breathe and move about in always interesting forms: prose poems, found poems, section poems, swirling mosaics of time and place. Beautifully crafted, the poems are emotionally complex yet accessible.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoseann Lloyd\u003c\/b\u003e has published eight books, including three poetry collections: \u003ci\u003eBecause of the Light\u003c\/i\u003e (Holy Cow! Press), \u003ci\u003eWar Baby Express\u003c\/i\u003e (Holy Cow! Press—awarded the Minnesota Book Award for Poetry), and \u003ci\u003eTap Dancing for Big Mom\u003c\/i\u003e (New Rivers Press). The anthology she co-edited with Deborah Keenan, \u003ci\u003eLooking for Home: Women Writing About Exile\u003c\/i\u003e (Milkweed Editions) was awarded an American Book Award. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Holy Cow! Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132667969776,"sku":"9780983325499","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780983325499_p0.jpg?v=1763885219","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780983325499","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}