{"product_id":"mycocosmic-paperback","title":"Mycocosmic - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLesley Wheeler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMycocosmic \u003c\/i\u003eoffers intricately woven incantations--prayers, hexes, and charms--all of which call for a transformation of language, grief, and the self.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Good things come to you through fire,\" a Tarot reader told Lesley Wheeler as she was composing what became her sixth poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eMycocosmic\u003c\/i\u003e. But how could that be true, while the planet was burning and life slamming her with one loss after another? Then she learned about pyrophilic fungi that lurk in soil until activated by fire. Enter mycelia and a teeming underground world that metabolizes death, changing what remains so that life can begin anew. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMycocosmic \u003c\/i\u003eoffers intricately woven spell poems--prayers, hexes, charms, and invocations--that call for transformation. A parent's death gives Wheeler the freedom to reveal difficult truths about family violence and her sexuality; a midlife mental health crisis transforms her sense of self. Incantatory language channeled through a wide variety of forms--including free verse, litany, sonnets, the bref double, the golden shovel, and the villanelle--empowers these shifts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Beneath these poems runs a book-length essay in verse, \"Underpoem [Fire Fungus],\" sending tendrils across the footer of each page. This poetic mycelium nourishes metamorphosis and highlights its urgency. As Merlyn Sheldrake writes in \u003ci\u003eEntangled Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Mycelium describes the most common of fungal habits, better thought of not as a thing but as a process: an exploratory, irregular tendency.\" Poetry is rooted in real and imagined communities and conversations. \u003ci\u003eMycocosmic \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates how interdependence binds us together.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLesley Wheeler\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five previous poetry collections, including \u003ci\u003eThe State She's In\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHeterotopia\u003c\/i\u003e. Her other books include the hybrid memoir \u003ci\u003ePoetry's Possible Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e and the novel \u003ci\u003eUnbecoming\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has received support from the Fulbright Foundation, Bread Loaf, and the Sewanee Writers Workshop, and her poems and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review Online\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoets \u0026amp; Writers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuernica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMassachusetts Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEcotone\u003c\/i\u003e, and other magazines. She is the poetry editor of \u003ci\u003eShenandoah\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 82\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.27 x 8.95 x 6.13 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42734223982655,"sku":"9781961209169","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/8db731eace160ad7c9293d9f6b510cc7.webp?v=1765139111","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/mycocosmic-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}