{"product_id":"9780983828938","title":"What Island","description":"What is it like to go abroad but not for vacation? What business do we have? What right-minded, haunted search for community, for family, for social justice takes us beyond our borders, domestic rooms, and familiar walls? What responsibility is there-those of us who've been to the two-thirds world, met the 99%, the uninsured, the impoverished-when we arrive and hear the planet's last message: pay attention, live on me. What W. S. Merwin has done to elevate ecology to the poetic, P. K. Harmon now takes-without bravado, without exaggeration-to the source, the sun, the tropics we've wanted, adorned with fantasies of leisure, then ruined. But also, despite any American devastation, what we've loved and longed for: \"how blue \/ and how we turned from one \/ another into blue-all so blue \/ those old beaks cutting ahead \/the flapping somehow grace too \/\/ in the flight-those two into \/ a deeper and deeper blue and I \/ drifted closer and closer \/\/ to the rough and sharp until \/ finally the heavy air that is \/ coming into a lovely silence.\" What island? The ultimate answer is earth.","brand":"Serving House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49893906972912,"sku":"9780983828938","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780983828938","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}