{"product_id":"9780985981853","title":"Approaching the Gate: Poems","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2015 Northeastern Minnesota Book Award for Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eLynette Reini-Grandell's long-anticipated debut collection of poetry quickens with forward movement, be it in a car that pushes towards the stars—or with a horse that suddenly spooks, leaving the speaker \"knocked down, \/ breathless, \/ turning to the sight of a thousand-pound horse \/ rushing the gate \/ and leaping over my head.\" Several of the poems probe the experience of her grandparents who emigrated from Finland and settled on a farm in northern Minnesota in the early twentieth century. The urge to move forward is matched with a deep love and reverence for creatures living in their natural world, for the buzz of the city, for unmet ancestors and kindred spirits, and most especially for her transgender husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eApproaching the Gate\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeel back the feathers, peel back the fur.\u003cbr\u003eThe pale, protective skin--peel that away too.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePull apart anything that covers,\u003cbr\u003escrape away whatever doesn't fit.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLet light stream in at the speed of blood,\u003cbr\u003eslice past cornea, sclera, iris, retina.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnything to fell the green-leaved past\u003cbr\u003eand pave a roadway,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eanything to get to the inside,\u003cbr\u003eanything to plow this ground under.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLynette Reini-Grandell\u003c\/b\u003e's poetry has received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Finlandia Foundation. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and is part of an art installation in room 5D of the Carlton Arms Hotel in Manhattan. In Minneapolis, she reads regularly with the Bosso Poetry Company, a subsidiary of Bosso Enterprises, theoretically based in Big Lever, Wyoming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holy Cow! Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47014023102704,"sku":"9780985981853","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780985981853_p0.jpg?v=1763881026","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780985981853","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}