{"product_id":"9781555976668","title":"The Earth Avails: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe anticipated new book by Mark Wunderlich, whose poetry \"reminds us how fully the spirit can illuminate the depths\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA \u003c\/i\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003ci\u003eBook of the Week\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith your sorghum broom you sweetened my path, pulled the woolen shawl around me while I slept.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat the lightning struck the willow and did not fall—for this I am grateful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e —from \"Heaven-Letter\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Earth Avails\u003c\/i\u003e evokes an all-but-lost history, when every setting, thought, and action was imbued with ritual: here's the prayer said in a time of sickness; here's the blessing spoken upon entering the house; here's the letter from heaven that protects its holder from harm and misfortune. Rendered in part from folkloric and historical sources, Mark Wunderlich's poems reinvent these traditions with lyrical and emotive force for a new century of readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055519809776,"sku":"9781555976668","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555976668_p0.jpg?v=1763756053","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555976668","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}