{"product_id":"but-for-this-mess-9798899903953","title":"but for this mess","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Cara Lorello\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Finishing Line Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Finishing Line Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fifty-seven poems of \u003cem\u003ebut for this mess\u003c\/em\u003e represent nearly two decades of the author's collected works. Their subjects and inspirations range widely in scope, yet each poem reads with a clear-eye sense of place, time, and personal significance unique to its source. Through the agile and abstracted language of poetry, Cara Lorello recounts scenes from a rural upbringing in the Pacific Northwest observed from the back of a horse, on long-distance travels between estranged family, repeated bouts of mental illness, late-bloomer love and loss, up to her present existence as a day job-working poet. The result, however odd or imperfect, reveals an unfiltered portrait of a writer whose greatest challenge is the balancing act of meeting the demands of a puzzling world with her drive to create in spite of everything. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Finishing Line Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47775917637783,"sku":"9798899903953","price":2006.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798899903953.webp?v=1777993194","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/but-for-this-mess-9798899903953","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}