{"product_id":"a-future-unmappable-9781646624003","title":"A Future Unmappable","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michele Parker Randall\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Finishing Line Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Finishing Line Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere's a rope between two burning towers. One tower burns anxiously. The other tower (the left side of the brain) burns orderly. Randall is dancing on that rope. It is the motion-a footfall, a locomotive blowing hard, a wave-that keeps her from falling. An ecstasy is a song to motion, to ex stasis, and Randall belts it true enough to pop the deepest bass string on your Fender Squier guitar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e -Barrett Warner\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWhy Is It So Hard to Kill You?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese powerful poems erode our physical boundaries leaving us to explore mental illness as a patient and as a caregiver alternatively. With ferocity yet in a ceremony of revelation, Michele Parker Randall's \u003cem\u003eA Future Unmapable \u003c\/em\u003eartfully discloses the unfathomable struggle of helping a beloved come back from the brink. Honest and courageous, each poem is a study of the much-needed conversation of what it is like to live with and recover from such a destabilizing experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e -Didi Jackson\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMoon Jar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eA Future Unmappable\u003c\/em\u003e, Michele Parker Randall\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eexplores the nakedness of mental uncertainty: What is real? what is not? when \"unable to tell the dream-state from the wake-state \/ Try to free someone from inside a balloon.\" Muted tension screams in the torque of Randall's lines: \"coiledspring \/ a snake\" \"between the wardscape \/ walls\" \"how many worlds we \/ fit in one day.\" These panoptic poems offer a view from the in-between lest any of us be too sure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e -Tanya Grae\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eUndoll\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46452450197655,"sku":"9781646624003","price":1020.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781646624003.webp?v=1769140837","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-future-unmappable-9781646624003","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}