{"product_id":"campo-santo-poems-9780807116760","title":"Campo Santo: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Susan Wood\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Wood draws on her own past to create poems that are remarkable for their depth and clarity, and for the stories they tell. In \u003ci\u003eCampo Santo, \u003c\/i\u003eshe chooses grief over nothingness and constructs tales out of her own lost world, the retrieval system of memory. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWood's lyrical narratives chart the intimacies and distances between people. She writes about the pleasures and sorrows of family relationships, about the death of her mother, about the agonies of race in a small town, about the inconsolabilities of grief and the consolations of poetry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut for all the sorrows in these poems, there are also odd moments of joy and celebration the world caught and transfigured, recovered. \"We all deserve some sweetness in the end,\" Wood tells us. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eCampo Santo \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrate Wood's confident mastery of poetic technique. With this collection she takes her place as a mature, accomplished poet.","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47781173493911,"sku":"9780807116760","price":2613.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780807116760.webp?v=1778051116","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/campo-santo-poems-9780807116760","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}