{"product_id":"abider-poems-paperback","title":"Abider: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMelissa Crowe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Showcasing the poet's ironic best, it's a masterly volume about love, not merely abided, but embodied.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEqual parts sad, sexy, and searching, \u003ci\u003eAbider\u003c\/i\u003e opens with the central lament\/brag of its lover-speaker, that she can never truly leave anything--or anyone--behind. The origins of this abidingness are traced in odes and elegies for a rural girlhood beset with jeopardy and scarcity and neglect. But it was also good-wild, conducive to a reckless freedom she can't help grieving, even as she falls in love at sixteen and marries hard. Meanwhile, other, electric connections are painfully delimited by heteronormative expectations, and her growing dis-ease reveals that she has been trying (and failing) to heal by remaining where she is harmed. She wants--this harrowed, semi-feral girl turned unswerving woman--to stay and go at once, and the tension between her desire for connection and her wish to escape threatens her sense of self and animates these vivid, urgent, tenderhearted poems. Right on time, then, a secret third thing emerges: a final, lush and lucid sonnet sequence that culminates in a promise to abide--first, foremost, always--the self.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMelissa Crowe\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eDear Terror, Dear Splendor\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLo\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eCopper Nickel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry Northwest\u003c\/i\u003e, and the\u003ci\u003e New England Review\u003c\/i\u003e and has been featured in the Academy of American Poets' \u003ci\u003ePoem-a-Day \u003c\/i\u003eseries. She was the recipient of the 2021 Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America and is chair of the Department of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 98\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 7.85 x 5.74 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 22, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46318443298860,"sku":"9780822968375","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/6260\/8940\/files\/oBL15PznMC9780822968375.webp?v=1790851921","url":"https:\/\/littleredgeneralstore.com\/products\/abider-poems-paperback","provider":"Little Red General Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}