{"product_id":"boats-in-the-attic-paperback","title":"Boats in the Attic - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlison Powell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoats in the Attic\u003c\/i\u003e is a sweeping, poignant exploration of what it means to be an individual and, in particular, what it means to be a parent of young children, in our current time of crisis. Errands must be run, the radio plays, and the child wants the birthday girl's balloon--all while sea levels are rising and wild wolves roam the acres of Chernobyl, \"developing a cryptography to a century \/ to which we are not invited.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this dynamic collection, Powell intersperses lyric flight and prose fragments with metacommentary, nuance, and a beguiling sense of humor. At the same time, these pieces are securely tethered to the material difficulties of being a human in today's world, where a child must participate in a lockdown drill at his preschool and a dying woman turns to Reddit to fund her efforts to be cryogenetically preserved. Conversations between the speaker and her children trace the beauty and terror of existential indeterminacy: \"We begin to consider other planets -- \/ Will they have us?\" In a long piece titled \"Book of Revelation,\" the speaker dreams that \"below the bed \/ is an encyclopedia of lost things,\" a phrase that captures the collection's wide range and its categorizing eye. Powell turns to astronomy, \u003ci\u003eAlice in Wonderland\u003c\/i\u003e, Millerism, and culinary cruelty, with a uniquely celebratory and elegiac voice, all in an effort to understand the depths, and effects, of the human appetite for pleasure, power, and escape.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlison Powell \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of English at Oakland University. Her other collections include a chapbook titled \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Perpetuation\u003c\/i\u003e and a collection of poetry titled\u003ci\u003e On the Desire to Levitate\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePBS NewsHour\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003epoets.org\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Public Space\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMichigan Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 102\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 20, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42097655742599,"sku":"9781531500856","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/b45218db982122cef6fe1a4889c1154b.webp?v=1732354713","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/boats-in-the-attic-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}