{"product_id":"when-we-were-water-9781937797119","title":"When We Were Water","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Raúl Sánchez | Lana Ayers Hechtman\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: World Enough Writers\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: World Enough Writers\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - Hispanic American\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Ra�l S�nchez's \u003cem\u003eWhen We Were Water\u003c\/em\u003e, selections from his books \u003cem\u003eAll Our Brown-Skinned Angels \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eWhen There Were No Borders\u003c\/em\u003e travel to us with abundant new work that continues to experiment in forms and shapes, with odes and acrostic poems, visions and flashbacks, elegies and spirit-journeys, but always with humor and human vitality and a golden thread connecting to Latin roots. This work is free and playful, jazzy and up close, exploding with intensity. These are questing poems, liberation poems, devotional\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epoems, ecstatic poems, comic poems, sincere and lived and opening out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Douglas Cole, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Cabin at the End of the World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith his new poems, S�nchez expands his everyman vision by focusing closer to home-he tends the garden, washes the dishes, kills a spider, gazes at the stars, and records his dreams. He sees the people and remembers the history most of us overlook. He immerses himself in the natural world. All the while, S�nchez builds on the ground he has previously staked out-celebrating and memorializing family, moving seamlessly between cultures and languages, and believing in the power of poetry to save us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-John Burgess, author of\u003cem\u003e Punk Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World Enough Writers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46860440404119,"sku":"9781937797119","price":1800.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781937797119.webp?v=1769955867","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/when-we-were-water-9781937797119","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}