{"product_id":"last-psalm-at-sea-level","title":"Last Psalm at Sea Level","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"In this writing, the poetic is political; through this investigation the body of the person and the body of the poem both move in new ways. 'I am not praying.\/ I'm longing,' Meg Day writes in an early poem, and that longing sounds a certain thrum under all the noise of the world: 'Come home. Come home.'\" — Kazim Ali\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Meg Day writes: 'At five, I pressed my lips to the grate of my grandmother's\/ Crosley, let broadcasts buzz into the pipe of my jawbone\/ \u0026amp; learned to listen with my tongue.' And this deep listening is, indeed, what she accomplishes throughout these poems. Meg Day grapples with serious themes - illness, violence, suicide, grief - with admirable skill and approaches issues of sexual orientation, identity, and gender with a true poet's passion, as in her tour de force, 'Batter My Heart, Transgender'd God': 'Terror, do not depart\/ but nest in the hollows of my loins… My knees, bring me to them; force my head to bow again. Replay the murders of my kin until my mind's made new.' This is muscular language, worthy of its inspiration.\" — Ellen Bass\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The ravishing poems in \u003ci\u003eLast Psalm as Sea Level\u003c\/i\u003e reveal a world that is itself always more than one thing at a time, in which joy and possibility inhabit precisely the same flesh as trouble and grief. The result is a collection whose perpetual and dazzling transformations are rooted in the world as it is, poems full of mirage and surprise, brash and dizzy with their own discoveries and inventions.\" —Katharine Coles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"'Sometimes, in dreams, I lie awake - the helm\/ held by my knees - \u0026amp; steer my craft along\/ the shore, searching for light to lead me home.' Meg Day's eagerly anticipated first book, \u003ci\u003eLast Psalm at Sea Level\u003c\/i\u003e, is a search for home shared by both reader and writer. The roads are unmapped, treacherous and full of uncertainty. What we are certain of is the poet's ability to guide us through. Her poetry is at once patient and urgent, provocative and profound.\" —Truong Tran\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barrow Street","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":68060580020541,"sku":"9780989329644","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/9780989329644ita.jpg?v=1794605151","url":"https:\/\/itascabooks.com\/products\/last-psalm-at-sea-level","provider":"Itasca Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}