{"product_id":"9781622881543","title":"Cheese after Fukushima: Poems for a Changing Planet","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn activist conscious dialogue, Marcia Slatkin’s Cheese After Fukushima laments an impending future occupied by melted ice caps, fishless oceans, persistence of global obesity, the absence of CO2, and a wheezing Earth suffocated under city sidewalks. These wildly inventive poems are backed with a beautiful linguistic language which brings an element of beauty to the otherwise stark descriptions of our own reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eCheese after Fukushima \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                       \u003cbr\u003e If I were young,\u003cbr\u003e my ovaries prodding possibility,\u003cbr\u003e squirming newness still in my future,\u003cbr\u003e I might stop. Rain brings rads\u003cbr\u003e to grass, unknowing ruminants\u003cbr\u003e munch, and the rest is amplification.\u003cbr\u003e “Then buy skim, packed before\u003cbr\u003e the Japanese release – enough\u003cbr\u003e for a lifetime — and mix your ration\u003cbr\u003e daily,” says the health ‘umai.’\u003cbr\u003e But I’d so mourn lessened\u003cbr\u003e pleasure: that thick milk-magic\u003cbr\u003e that lets enzymes ferment\u003cbr\u003e and grow wildly-unctuous tastes\u003cbr\u003e undreamed...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephen F. Austin State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051991810288,"sku":"9781622881543","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781622881543_p0.jpg?v=1763858209","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781622881543","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}