{"product_id":"onights-paperback","title":"O'Nights - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCecily Parks\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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\u003cbr\u003epretending to be moon. This love that sets us scrambling\u003cbr\u003eover the map's last ridge, our red hoods bright\u003cbr\u003ein shrunken sky. This metallic weather in which we\u003cbr\u003eare the ore. This alder. These crimson-tipped willows\u003cbr\u003ereverberating next to a river of turquoise ice. This\u003cbr\u003efollowing the deep tracks of one coyote stepping\u003cbr\u003ewhere another has stepped. This wilderness\u003cbr\u003ethat we trespass, burning like berries in the juniper\u003cbr\u003eand 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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCecily Parks 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, Kenyon Review, Orion, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Yale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 14, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42107233927303,"sku":"9781938584114","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/b4787dd77b8e881ceab1ce6827a0e70d.webp?v=1732453467","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/onights-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}