{"product_id":"9781937347024","title":"Wal-Mart Orchid","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2011 Helen Kay Chapbook Poetry Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eWal-Mart Orchid  \u003c\/i\u003eby Judith Sornberger \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf only we could—can we?—connect to one another and to the world we’ve been given as these poems connect, then \u003cbr\u003e“the brief campfire of our laughter could call others who are...trying to find their way by knife-glintthrough our cities, to create a tribe and language out of gunshot and graffiti.\" —\u003cb\u003eMarjorie Saiser, author of \u003ci\u003eBeside You at the Stoplight\u003c\/i\u003e (Little Bluestem Award) and \u003ci\u003eRooms\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSornberger writes with grace and tenderness of the many things that divide us, such as class, gender, and education, and the small things that bring us together. . . of the empathy that is possible in the fragile moments when our lives intersect, even against the depersonalizing backdrop of commercial monoliths like Wal-Mart. —\u003cb\u003eLouise A. Blum, author of \u003ci\u003eAmnesty\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eYou're Not From Around Here, Are You?\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn beautifully lyrical language, infused with clarity and insight, Sornberger takes us inside this most American phenomenon, reminding us that we are all connected, perhaps most deeply when we imagine ourselves apart. These are poems the world needs.  —\u003cb\u003eAlison Townsend, author of \u003ci\u003ePersephone in America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe speaker patrols a daily life of frustration, conflict, casual hostilities and ever-mounting culpability, but she refuses despair. . . and continue(s) her necessary mission: “to keep seeing what cannot be \/ and spreading its gospel.”—\u003cb\u003eGaylord Brewer author of \u003ci\u003eThe Martini Diet\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGive Over, Graymalkin\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Evening Street Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49786692370672,"sku":"9781937347024","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781937347024","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}