{"product_id":"running-aground-paperback","title":"Running Aground - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Joy Levinson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The beautiful poems in \u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth Joy Levinson\u003c\/strong\u003e's \u003cem\u003eRunning Aground\u003c\/em\u003e do not blink. They swim open eyed into the land of hard, sand-scrubbed love and loneliness and pain. And they speak for us girls so rarely seen in poems, difficult, poor, wild sea girls. These are poems of strong images and haunting lines, truth poems, father poems, ocean poems. It is a collection I will read and re-read again and again.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Leigh Camacho Rourks\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eMoon Trees and Other Orphans\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cstrong\u003eElizbeth Joy Levinson\u003c\/strong\u003e's \u003cem\u003eRunning Aground\u003c\/em\u003e navigates us through ports of poverty, sea creatures, Florida \u0026amp; the dangers of opening one's mouth \u0026amp; speaking (or not). Thankfully, Levinson does speak out in these poems full of deft lyricism, pacing \u0026amp; powerful metaphors. She guides us through moments of peril like a jellyfish coming too close \u0026amp; the heartache in seeing a father run aground. These poems fuse images \u0026amp; language of land \u0026amp; sea, of ships \u0026amp; cars packed w\/suitcases, of mermaids \u0026amp; girls reaching out w\/fingers \"trying\/ to hold everything\/ at once.\" With Levinson as our captain, the poems in \u003cem\u003eRunning Aground\u003c\/em\u003e will steadily sail on \u0026amp; steer our way through troubled waters \u0026amp; time.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Jacob Saenz\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThrowing the Crown\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the 2018 APR\/Honickman First Book Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 34\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.08 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 16, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101434155143,"sku":"9781646622795","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/6fd7e32e5390ed1d64dc4dd1a21f343f.webp?v=1732394185","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/running-aground-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}