{"product_id":"walking-into-lightning-paperback","title":"Walking Into Lightning - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEllen Laflèche\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter her husband died of ALS in 2014, poet Ellen LaFleche began writing of physical love and loss, of the complications of memory, of the small, personal, persistent sorrows that lived with her every day. These poems push back against clinical theories of bereavement by validating the necessary persistence of grief and remembering. They also challenge platitudes about the easy comfort of memories. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The poem \"Unbearable,\" for example, describes the sensory joys of the couple's honeymoon: \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e We splurged on fine wine and watched sunset spread\u003cbr\u003e its slow flush across evening's throat...\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e I tipped a shell against his lips and told him to drink.\u003cbr\u003e Too sandy, he said, too salty, but he swallowed the broth, \u003cbr\u003e wiping his beard with the knuckled swipes of a pre-historic man.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Now, memories of the salty taste of a littleneck clam bring an intense mixture of joy and sorrow.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Memory also fails, erases: \"Your face is fading into my brain's neuronal mist,\" the poet writes, and \"I remember how you carried home a bouquet of foliage. \/\u003cbr\u003e I don't remember the spider that crawled up your sleeve.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The sensual, recurrent imagery of Walking into Lightning - fire, ocean water, corn fields, thunder, birth, the pleasures of physical love - spiral through the poems, linking them in a long, tangled journey through bereavement and loss.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This is a remarkable book for the bereaved, unsentimental and undistracted, profoundly moving and cathartic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 68\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.16 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 15, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42713278316607,"sku":"9781732952126","price":19.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/910655e887961f72ba47bbe2dccfb353.webp?v=1765064098","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/walking-into-lightning-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}