{"product_id":"9781938584114","title":"O'Nights","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"In Cecily Parks' beautiful poems, the natural world teeters between being and seeming—the seeming a simulacrum projected onto the world by a mind's yearning, taxonomy and dread. Deeply metaphysical, and deeply attentive to our spiritual as well as physical uses and abuses of nature, \u003ci\u003eO'Nights\u003c\/i\u003e implicates language's —indeed, lyric poetry's—sad role in this endeavor.\"—Susan Wheeler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eO'Nights\u003c\/i\u003e, Cecily Parks constructs stunning manifestations of a modern Thoreauvian wilderness, investigating how the natural world gives shape to the self, body, and emotions. These lyrical, transcendental poems study the duality of nature's feminine and masculine identities, and in its simplicity, offers a space where humankind truly belongs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Bell\":\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis progress, as in the wind-scalloped snowmeadow pretending to be moon. This love that sets us scrambling over the map's last ridge, our red hoods bright in shrunken sky. This metallic weather in which we are the ore. This alder. These crimson-tipped willows reverberating next to a river of turquoise ice. This following the deep tracks of one coyote stepping where another has stepped. This wilderness that we trespass, burning like berries in the juniper and becoming the air in the belfry.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCecily Parks\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the chapbook \u003ci\u003eCold Work\u003c\/i\u003e (Poetry Society of America, 2005) and the collection \u003ci\u003eField Folly Snow\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Georgia Press, 2008), which was a finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award and the Glasgow\/Shenandoah Prize for Emerging Writers. Her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOrion\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eYale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alice James Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051646337264,"sku":"9781938584114","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781938584114_p0.jpg?v=1763663396","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781938584114","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}