{"product_id":"9781597091312","title":"Bestiary","description":"\u003cp\u003e“The poems in Elise Paschen’s \u003ci\u003eBestiary\u003c\/i\u003e explore domestic preoccupations set against the backdrop of the wild-heartedness, real and imagined, of the animal world,” praises the poet Jason Shinder. In this modern-day \u003ci\u003eBestiary\u003c\/i\u003e, or “Book of Beasts,” the line between animal and human is thinly-drawn – the daughter of a Celtic king, through love, is transformed from beast to human; lovers take flight as moon and owl; manatees transform, before the explorers’ eyes, into mermaids. This dynamic runs throughout the collection: taking flight, hovering between air and earth, plunging, and then resurfacing from water. The poems create a constant engagement between what tethers us to our daily lives – marriage, motherhood, raising a family, the loss of parents in old age – and the desire for other worlds. Exploring notions of transformation, these poems cross thresholds between animal and human, between death and life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning poet, Elise Paschen, creates in her third and most complex poetry collection, work which is elegant and passionate, preternaturally still and reckless all at once. Paschen displays a variety of form and nuance – from ghazals to long-lined free verse poems. Writing out of a distinct Western literary tradition, but tapping into her Native American (Osage) roots, Paschen celebrates the mythic, the unusual, the magical glimpsed in the everyday.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Hen Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47041230897392,"sku":"9781597091312","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781597091312_p0.jpg?v=1763808622","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781597091312","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}