{"product_id":"giving-ground-9780986330490","title":"Giving Ground","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Lynn M. Knapp\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Poetry Box\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Poetry Box\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - Places\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGiving Ground\u003c\/em\u003e pulses with traffic and teems with life, leading us through tangled streets, intertwined lives. We find a place of overgrown gardens, alleys in bloom, pheasants in flight, rabbits, stray cats, and Spanish love songs, a place where the ordinary appears in an extraordinary light. With deft narrative strokes, \u003cem\u003eGiving Ground\u003c\/em\u003e reveals a place and its people, lives balanced on the shifting ground of language and culture. Like the place, Lynn Knapp's poems are wry, real, and poignant.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLynn M. Knapp is a poet, memoirist, teacher, and musician. She lives in a hundred-year-old house and walks every day in one of the oldest neighborhoods in the Pacific Northwest. The grit, grime, and unexpected beauty of the central city inspire her life and her writing. Her poetry has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Burden of Light: Poems on Illness and Loss\u003c\/em\u003e (2014), \u003cem\u003ePoeming Pigeons\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Lost River Review\u003c\/em\u003e (2015). Her work also appears online at the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, Washington.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat They're Saying: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAccessible and engaging, these poems make us feel as if we are standing on the porch looking out into the small town ...\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eKelli Russell Agodon\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cbr\u003e Author, Hourglass Museum \u0026amp; The Daily Poet\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKnapp displays gentle humor and the heartfelt urge to understand, to cross the border of difference . . .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eLinda Andrews\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cbr\u003e Author, \u003cem\u003eEscape of the Bird Women\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCombining deft portraits of both past and current inhabitants with lyrical nature poems, Knapp reflects the demographic shifts that define American history.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eCarolyn Martin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Author, \u003cem\u003eThe Way a Woman Knows\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Poetry Box","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45509517475991,"sku":"9780986330490","price":1050.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780986330490.webp?v=1767109438","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/giving-ground-9780986330490","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}