{"product_id":"b0dgnwlg5r","title":"Ocean of Clouds: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eNAMED AN ESSENTIAL READ OF THE YEAR BY  THE New Yorker •  In his fourth book of poems, award-winning poet Garrett Hongo sees coastlines and waters, skylines and ancestral lines for what they inspire and teach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a surpassingly beautiful collection of poems, with his characteristic long-lined, rolling music, Hongo is alert to the possibilities of individual moments of perception and grace in the landscapes of his life, whether waiting for a ferry in Balboa after a writing workshop (“An oil slick from a yacht . . . \/ Spread rainbows on the water, an aleph \/ curving toward us”) or hanging out and playing LPs with the late, great poet Michael Harper, or watching his daughter in the sun with a halo of messy twelve-year-old’s hair, or listening to the sea, which speaks to him in so many places: at the Wai‘ōpae Tidepools, at Cassis, at Divi Bay in Saint Martin, where, he tells us, “I thought of writing to the soul of Nâzim Hikmet, \/ saying loving a woman was like writing a book— \/ . . . it is love’s body on which you write a page of kisses . . .”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese poems of cloudy moons and sandstone cliffsides, the black glass of lava shattered into sands, waves surging, and stories of a poet’s gratitude for the journey he has made, come together to make a paean against forgetting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67924869120245,"sku":"YSL54329","price":9.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/8774\/8597\/files\/71fani4VOGL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793673800","url":"https:\/\/www.newbooks.store\/products\/b0dgnwlg5r","provider":"NewBooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}