{"product_id":"9781936196807","title":"Heredity and Other Inventions","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Sharona Muir’s Heredity and Other Inventions radiate like elements discovered late at night after years of searching … a rocket in a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emuseum in another country is both public knowledge and family secret; a daughter’s umbilical cord in her father’s lab sparks questions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eabout the uses of love; the body of an airplane holds the imagined gestures of humans in their fi nal moments of life … Muir renders the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ephysical world so unfl inchingly that the metaphysical blows back, in equal and opposite reaction … these poems are an act of postmortem\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecollaboration: daughter as witness to history, using language to weld and spark familial bonds and to summon up their mysteries.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Rebecca Klaver, author of Empire Wasted\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“… Muir has a gift for conjuring beauty in the least expected places, dazzling audiences with rich imagery … While the speaker’s narrative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis particular to her unique experience, in many ways this chapbook’s poems transcend place and time, and resonate with all who have\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elooked to the past for a way of understanding the present.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Mary Biddinger, author of Small Enterprise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"C\u0026R Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050762125552,"sku":"9781936196807","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781936196807_p0.jpg?v=1763660813","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781936196807","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}