{"product_id":"circle-back","title":"Circle Back","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn aching meditation on the cyclical nature of grief and memory’s limited capacity to preserve everything time takes from us.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHow does one make sense of loss—personal and collective? When language and memory are at capacity, where do we turn? Confronted with “a year meant to end all \/ those to come,” acclaimed poet Adam Clay questions whether anything is “wide enough to contain what’s left \/ of hope.” In the absence of a clear way forward, the poems of \u003ci\u003eCircle Back\u003c\/i\u003e wander grief’s strange and winding path. Along the way, the line between reality and dreams blurs: cows stare with otherworldly eyes, 78s play under cactus needles, a father becomes his own child, and the dead become something more complicated—a “sketch turned to painting \/ left in a room dusty from \/ lack of passing through.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBut amidst these liminal landscapes, a “thread of promise” persists in poetry. As flawed as language is, we still turn to it for longevity, for love, like “Keats, \/ sketching himself back into place.” Vulnerable and nuanced, Clay details the difficult work of healing—and in doing so, captures those needful moments of reprieve in grief’s “strange circle.” Two friends dashing through a sprinkler. A garden of startled birds. Out for a run some gray morning: a sudden patch of wildflowers. \u003ci\u003eCircle Back\u003c\/i\u003e is a bared heart, one readers will find as thoughtful as it is tender.\u003cfont color=\"#000000\" face=\"Times New Roman, serif\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57299909575038,"sku":"NW9781639550982","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781639550982.jpg?v=1778526908","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/circle-back","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}