{"product_id":"flare-corona","title":"Flare Corona","description":"\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 2024 Washington State Book Award Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAgainst a constellation of solar weather events and evolving pandemic, Jeannine Hall Gailey’s\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlare, Corona\u003c\/i\u003e paints a self-portrait of the layered ways that we prevail and persevere through illness and natural disaster.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGailey deftly juxtaposes odd solar and weather events with the medical disasters occurring inside her own brain and body— we follow her through a false-alarm terminal cancer diagnosis, a real diagnosis of MS, and finally the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. The solar flare and corona of an eclipse becomes the neural lesions in her own personal “flare,” which she probes with both honesty and humor. While the collection features harbingers of calamity, visitations of wolves, blood moons, apocalypses, and plagues, at the center of it all are the poet’s attempts to navigate a fraught medical system, dealing with a series of challenging medical revelations, some of which are mirages and others that are all too real. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlare, Corona\u003c\/i\u003e, Jeannine Hall Gailey is incandescent and tender-hearted, gracefully insistent on teaching us all of the ways that we can live, all of the ways in which we can refuse to do anything but to brilliantly and stubbornly survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57307835400574,"sku":"NW9781950774920","price":12.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781950774920.jpg?v=1778578048","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/flare-corona","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}