{"product_id":"9781324074687","title":"Whale Fall: Poems","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e“The craft of \u003cem\u003eWhale Fall\u003c\/em\u003e defies. It asserts, for me, a definition of poetry: an unbearable gulf of feeling made indelible by form.”—Diane Seuss, \u003cem\u003eParis Review\u003c\/em\u003e A masterful and moving new volume from a “peerless poet of the natural world” (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed as an essential voice of the American Midwest, David Baker expands both his environment and his form in his eleventh collection. \u003cem\u003eWhale Fall\u003c\/em\u003e is about time, measured in the wingbeats of a hummingbird or the epochs of geological change, and about place, whether a backyard in Ohio or the slopes of a melting glacier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the exquisite, musical title poem, a deft hybrid of eco-poetic alarm and intimate narrative, Baker transports us to the deep sea as a single gray whale carcass falls, decays, and is reinhabited by a cosmos of teeming lives. Among the strands of ocean health, microplastics, and related calamities of human disregard, the poet weaves in a personal story of chronic illness. The result is a stirring, confident work, astonishing in its emotional acuity and lyric range.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach poem in \u003cem\u003eWhale Fall\u003c\/em\u003e is an echolocation, emitting its music to situate itself among others in the vastness of the world. Amidst climate change and catastrophe, as amidst a blooming viburnum or a viral disease, these poems send their songs across empty spaces of a line, a page, or a continent, to see who is out there, moving in the depths of being.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47917929758960,"sku":"9781324074687","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781324074687_p0.jpg?v=1763708413","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781324074687","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}