{"product_id":"blue-lash-9781571314246","title":"Blue Lash","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlue Lash\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e James Armstrong explores the way a physical place can be alchemically transformed into mental geographies. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe world of Lake Superior comes alive and expands outward in these poems: cicadas \"grind their teeth\/under the blue roof of August\"; a quartz pebble becomes \"little knuckle\/petrified egg\/white as a wave-cap\"; a Jet Ski \"revs past the dock\/like a demon out of Milton.\" Stripping away the layer of sentimentality that often cloaks the lake, Armstrong portrays it instead as a rebuke to human arrogance, and a reminder of the sublime indifference of wild places.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Armstrong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48284500885755,"sku":"9781571314246","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781571314246_9ed373c5-d93d-4b21-9bd2-322e444f2928.jpg?v=1772484919","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/blue-lash-9781571314246","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}