{"title":"Laurie Allmann","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"an-hour-from-now-poems-1","title":"An Hour from Now: poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis collection of poems, steeped in field biology and the environmental sciences, offers intimate glimpses of a natural world that has its own integrity and value apart from our comprehension of it. The author describes everything from the behavior of birds to the flight of butterflies, from astronomical phenomena to weather patterns and the movements of salamanders. Using an approach reminiscent of the Imagist poets of the early twentieth century, she asks questions while avoiding the rhapsodizing that nature can so easily elicit. Yet the rapport between observer and observed is unmistakable, not only in the empathetic cross-species portrayals but also in the music of the words themselves. Unmistakable, and also welcome.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLaurie Allmann\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a St. Croix Valley-based environmental writer, essayist, and poet. She received a Minnesota Book Award for her creative nonfiction book, \u003cem\u003eFar From Tame: Reflections from the Heart of a Continent\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of essays based on ecoregions of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. Her essays have been featured in public radio commentaries on MPR and KFAI, and published in numerous anthologies. She has been a course instructor for The Loft Literary Center, and is a founding coeditor of \u003cem\u003eAgate\u003c\/em\u003e magazine. Her poems have found expression in spoken-word performances and in publications such as \u003cem\u003eThe Floating Fish Review \u003c\/em\u003eand photographer Craig Blacklock’s book, \u003cem\u003eSt. Croix and Namekagon Rivers\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nodin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321645867158,"sku":"9781947237209","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_f4ad0e68-5bed-4804-89a0-57bb997dafd1.jpg?v=1642160848"},{"product_id":"places-everyone-poems","title":"Places, everyone: poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe title of Laurie Allmann's new poetry collection, \u003ci\u003ePlaces, everyone\u003c\/i\u003e, embodies its central premise: that every place in nature is an expression of a complex and beautiful set of relationships built over time. It also offers of hint of the wry and engaging tone that often surfaces in her free verse as she relates scenes from the daily lives of individual creatures—Blanding's turtles, crayfish, long-eared owls—and their intimate connections with the landscapes they call home. These are poems about swans and evolution, silent movies and Tuvan throat-singers, frogs, dogs, the act of poetry writing itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe patience and insight with which she explores the natural world is accompanied by an awareness of the role she herself plays in its unfolding story. She reckons with grief and accountability for the undeniable changes we have all brought to bear. But more than anything, this collection revels in the wild creatures and wild places from which we take so much joy, and to which we are obliged in equal measure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nodin Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52912476684605,"sku":"9781947237735","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/9781947237735ita.jpg?v=1787342645"}],"url":"https:\/\/itascabooks.com\/collections\/laurie-allmann.oembed","provider":"Itasca Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}