{"product_id":"blue-mimes-poems","title":"Blue Mimes: Poems","description":"\u003ch1\u003eBlue Mimes: Poems\u003c\/h1\u003eSara Daniele Rivera\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003eApril 2 2024\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9781644452790\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 1644452790\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cp\u003eSara Daniele Rivera's award-winning debut is a collection of sprawling elegy in the face of catastrophic grief, both personal and public. From the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election through the COVID-19 pandemic, these poems memorialize lost loved ones and meditate on the not-yet gone--all while the wider-world loses its sense of connection, safety, and assurance. In those years of mourning, \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Mimes\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of grounding and heartening resolve, even and especially in the states of uncertainty that define the human condition. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRivera's poems travel between Albuquerque, Lima, and Havana, deserts and coastlines and cities, Spanish and English--between modes of language and culture that shape the contours of memory and expose the fault lines of the self. In those inevitable fractures, with honest, off-kilter precision, Rivera vividly renders the ways in which the bereft become approximations of themselves as a means of survival, mimicking the stilted actions of the people they once were. Where speech is not enough, this astonishing collection finds a radical practice in continued searching, endurance without promise--the rifts in communion and incomplete pictures that afford the possibility to heal.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44069277138989,"sku":"19080","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_e94c54a2-01e7-4f51-9be8-320382c04824.jpg?v=1770408789","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/blue-mimes-poems","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}