{"product_id":"american-wake-9781574232479","title":"American Wake","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The poems, plainspoken distillations of origins and loss, explore histories, teasing at what we know without knowing, and know without remembering we know. A book of quiet, watchful radiance.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Must-read poetry.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNew from a poet whose astonishing images, emotional honesty, and storytelling power hold a singular clarity of vision. \"\u003ci\u003eAmerican Wake\u003c\/i\u003e navigates loss with such unparalleled sensitivity and inventiveness that language becomes its own jubilant force of survival.\"--Major Jackson \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn \"American wake\" is what the Irish call a farewell to those emigrating to the United States. A New England poet equally at home in Ireland, Kerrin McCadden explores family, death and grief, apologies, and all manner of departures. In the poem \"In the Harbor,\" McCadden writes: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen we are out to sea, we look back to see faces\u003cbr\u003e ringing the shore like a fence, those we love in up\u003cbr\u003e to their hips in waves, waving goodbye like mad.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncluded in \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Wake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e are the poems, \"My Broken Family,\" \"Weeks After My Brother Overdoses,\" \"One Way to Apologize to a Daughter for Careless Words,\" \"Portrait of the Family as a Definition,\" and \"My Mother Talks to Her Son about Her Heart.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis collection by a writer of extraordinary gifts will appeal to readers who believe in the potential of carefully hewn words to unveil our world and our deepest feelings to ourselves. As the acclaimed memoirist Nick Flynn (\u003ci\u003eAnother Bullshit Night in Suck City\u003c\/i\u003e) puts it: \"Kerrin McCadden transforms tragedy into myth.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-13700344\"\u003eKerrin McCadden\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Black Sparrow Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781574232479\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1574232479\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE024000\"\u003eWomen Authors\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE023010\"\u003eSubjects \u0026amp; Themes | Death, Grief, Loss\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE023050\"\u003eSubjects \u0026amp; Themes | Family\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Black Sparrow Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42711060578541,"sku":"9781574232479","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_9e646878-85fb-498f-be69-f482d71b2ce2.jpg?v=1650154631","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/american-wake-9781574232479","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}