{"product_id":"milkweed-smithereens","title":"Milkweed Smithereens","description":"\u003cp\u003eMilkweed Smithereens gathers lively, wickedly smart, intimate, and indelible Bernadette Mayer poems: the volume ranges from brand-new nature poems, pastiches, sequences, epigrams, and excerpts from her Covid Diary and Second World of Nature to early poems and sonnets found in the attic or rooted out in the UC San Diego archive. The world of nature and the pandemic loom large, as in her \"The Lobelias of Fear\":\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e…but how will we, still alive, socialize\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein the winter? wrapped in bear skins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewe'll sit around pot-bellied stoves eating\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe lobelias of fear left over from desperation,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elast summer's woodland sunflowers and bee balm remind us of black\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echerries eaten in a hurry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhile the yard grows in the moonlight\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshrinking like a salary …\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Cranford Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182663581853,"sku":"081122922X","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9218\/0125\/files\/9780811229227.jpg?v=1757123515","url":"https:\/\/thecranfordbookstore.com\/products\/milkweed-smithereens","provider":"The Cranford Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}