{"product_id":"9781944899608","title":"Somehow We Remain in the Aftermath","description":"\"Sara's poems are less like reading and more like being handed a stack of photographs of people you'd almost forgotten. The images are beautiful, heartbreaking and crystal clear, the edges yellowed with nostalgia. Magic.\" ~Amanda Gowin, author of Radium Girls (Thunderdome Press, 2014)\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eIn Somehow We Remain in the Aftermath, Sara Krueger invites us into a world of strangeness. Above the surface, humans become \"metal \/ from toes to tummy to tongue,\" to survive. Below the surface, the world looks just as bizarre, with beings \"like scattered husks \/ found after a hard harvest\" burrowing to safety as the \"sweet, sweet blue \/ kept on its way to becoming Venus.\" And while the world might seem alien, it isn't; there's much to recognize here, perhaps most poignant, the beauty in the ugliness, the optimism in the apocalypse, the spark of hope within us all in the next generation--the \"new one\" with \"tiny fists\" that \"find purchase in this weakened world.\" Read this book to experience what it means to be human, albeit \"with skin so scaly thick \/ rolling mud balls like a little dung beetle.\" ~Katie Hoerth, Poetry Editor of Devilfish Review and author of Goddess Wears Cowboy Boots (Lamar University Press, 2014)\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eSara Krueger is a story teller \"Spinning yarns \/ and tall tales too \/ with digital banjo picking \/ and firelight \/ tumbling from our barrel chests.\" Somehow We Remain in the Aftermath is an enchanting and vibrant new collection-a modern Pandora that offers wry acumen and cleverness. ~Leah Maines, Publisher, Finishing Line Press","brand":"Finishing Line Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033571279088,"sku":"9781944899608","price":14.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781944899608_p0.jpg?v=1763769289","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781944899608","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}