{"product_id":"lapis-9780819500083","title":"Lapis","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kerri Webster\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - Death, Grief, Loss\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA record of visionary experience in the wake of loss\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLapis\u003c\/i\u003e, poet Kerri Webster writes into the vast space left by the deaths of three women: her mother, a mentor, and a friend. Using a wide array of lyric forms and meditations, Webster explores matrilineages both familial and poetic, weaving together death, spirituality, women, and a sense of the shifting earth into one \"doctrine of Non-linear Revelation.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElegy \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd I \u003ci\u003ewas\u003c\/i\u003e equal to my longing: \u003cbr\u003ethe mums blackening; \u003cbr\u003esorrow a carboned figurine; \u003cbr\u003ethe firmament steaming; your ashes\u003cbr\u003einterred in the boulder;\u003cbr\u003ethe ugly birds crying dolor dolor dolor;\u003cbr\u003ethe sky smoke-choked--what, then, \u003cbr\u003ewould you have had be my register?\u003cbr\u003eAs the beasts of the field rub their antlers off \u003cbr\u003ewith ooh-itch pleasure; as the screen says \u003cbr\u003eYou often open around this time; as the grapes\u003cbr\u003eblight: listen: sometimes \u003cbr\u003ewe're the pilgrim, sometimes \u003cbr\u003ewe're the site.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wesleyan University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45030615548055,"sku":"9780819500083","price":1195.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780819500083.webp?v=1769205934","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/lapis-9780819500083","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}