{"product_id":"the-museum-of-what-weve-outgrown-a-collection-of-poems-and-haibun-9798258530059","title":"The Museum of What We've Outgrown: a collection of poems and haibun","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): D. L. Baratta\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Museum of What We've Outgrown\u003c\/i\u003e is a contemporary poetry collection by D.L. Baratta, organized around a deceptively simple premise: that the most important work of midlife isn't accumulation but subtraction-learning to identify what we've outgrown and releasing it intentionally rather than out of guilt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStructured in seven thematic sections, the collection moves from the practice of attention (finally seeing what's been there all along) through transformation and identity, the doubled self in the digital age, difficult systemic wisdom, the philosophy of enough, ecological consciousness, and the language we use to avoid what we know.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaratta writes in the snapshot-poem tradition-accessible, conversational free verse with haiku's commitment to the concrete and specific-drawing on influences ranging from Billy Collins to Stoic philosophy to Buddhist contemplative practice. The poems avoid inspirational language and easy resolution, favoring instead the kind of honesty that produces recognition rather than motivation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders will find themselves in the shoes of a man standing at a red light, wondering whether a homeless woman takes Venmo. In a parent watching a child in a cotton ball costume and crying anyway. In someone lying awake at 2 AM, cataloging every debt they haven't paid. In the quiet of a Vietnamese restaurant where a friendship of thirty-eight years sits across from you, and the waitress knows your order before you sit down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a collection for readers tired of being told how to transform, who want instead the companionship of someone navigating the same terrain-honestly, wryly, without pretending to have arrived anywhere in particular.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIdeal for readers interested in contemplative poetry, midlife reflection, philosophical poetry, digital culture, environmental writing, and the intersection of everyday experience with larger questions about how to live.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47883248763031,"sku":"9798258530059","price":1251.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798258530059.webp?v=1781100569","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-museum-of-what-weve-outgrown-a-collection-of-poems-and-haibun-9798258530059","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}