{"product_id":"9781480484832","title":"Wyndmere","description":"\u003cb\u003ePoems on the power of memory and the shading of past into present\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this enthralling collection, National Book Award finalist and former Poet Laureate of California Carol Muske-Dukes composes a lyrical autobiography, tracing her family history from the Dakota prairie to her new life as a young mother in Los Angeles. In “The Separator,” Muske-Dukes writes of her grandfather, a wheat farmer, winnowing, threshing, planting a future in the deep black soil of Wyndmere, North Dakota. In “Biglietto d’Ingresso,” she recalls a perfect day in Tuscany, spent with her future husband in a town overlooking a wine valley. “August, Los Angeles, Lullaby” is a lulling yet harrowing description of the wonder of a mother holding her newborn child—and her own fragility, encountering mortality—as a hummingbird touches the hourglass of the feeder outside the window . . . then is gone.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126367797488,"sku":"9781480484832","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781480484832_p0.jpg?v=1763619707","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781480484832","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}