{"product_id":"9781556595455","title":"Dissolve","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Bitsui’s poetry returns things to their basic elements and voice in a flowing language rife with illuminating images. A great reading experience for those who like serious and innovative poetry.” — \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing upon Navajo history and enduring tradition, Sherwin Bitsui leads us on a treacherous, otherworldly passage through the American Southwest. Fluidly shape-shifting and captured by language that functions like a moving camera, \u003ci\u003eDissolve\u003c\/i\u003e is urban and rural, past and present in the haze of the reservation. Bitsui proves himself to be one of this century’s most haunting, raw, and uncompromising voices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom “(Untitled)”:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e. . . Jeweled with houseflies,\u003cbr\u003eleather rattles, foil-wrapped,\u003cbr\u003eferment in beaked masks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• n the shores of evaporating lakes.\u003cbr\u003eThis plot, now a hotel garden,\u003cbr\u003eits fountain gushing forth—\u003cbr\u003ethe slashed wrists of the Colorado River.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSherwin Bitsui \u003c\/b\u003e was raised in White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. He is the author of two other books of poetry, among them \u003ci\u003eFlood Song\u003c\/i\u003e , which won an American Book Award. He currently lives in Arizona where he has serves on the faculty of the Institute of American Indian Arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049309028592,"sku":"9781556595455","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556595455_p0.jpg?v=1763756183","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556595455","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}