{"product_id":"when-the-horses-9781949944716","title":"When the Horses","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn her award-winning debut, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen the Horses\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, Mary Helen Callier explores the rich inner terrain of an imaginative childhood through deep and curious poems set against the uncanny beauty of the American South.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Walter Benjamin wrote: \"Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater,\" and it is in this bedraggled theater of memory that Callier stages her poems. A careful, curtained-off darkness lurks at their edges, actors appearing more in silhouette, evoking, often, the shape of a thing, the sound it makes, instead of the thing itself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike all memories, these moments are fleeting. To read \u003cem\u003eWhen the Horses\u003c\/em\u003e is to see something nearly vanished, like trying to remember a dream hours after waking--a dream that haunts a wounded part of you, though you can't remember which. These are poems of encounter--with place, self, other--and the uncanny beauty that remains after loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-17328663\"\u003eMary Helen Callier\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice James Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\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 8.35h x 5.35w x 0.32d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781949944716\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1949944719\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-POE005010\"\u003eAmerican | General\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-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMARY HELEN CALLIER\u003c\/strong\u003e's poems have been widely published in outlets such as \u003cem\u003eColorado Review, Washington Square Review, Bennington Review, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Arkansas International\u003c\/em\u003e. She received her MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was a Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Fellow and was awarded a Howard Nemerov Prize. She grew up in Columbus, Georgia, and is currently a doctoral student in English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver in Denver, CO where she lives. Her debut collection, \u003cem\u003eWhen the Horses\u003c\/em\u003e, won the 2023 Alice James Award - Editor's Choice and is forthcoming in April 2025. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alice James Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48456199241965,"sku":"9781949944716","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_719074cc-9109-4d8e-878b-b7b7eb89835a.jpg?v=1753549425","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/when-the-horses-9781949944716","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}