{"product_id":"stay-safe-2","title":"Stay Safe","description":"At the center of this stellar collection are three sisters and their imaginative fear of grief. Their great-uncle was bitten by a shark, their mother has a brain tumor, their neighbor hangs himself from a tree—and to cope with these very real terrors, the oldest sister creates an intimate fantasy world. We hear stories of a mountain lion that slaughters a deer, a transparent body washed up on a beach, a selkie who ventures to shore and becomes their mother: “On land her pelt was heavy \/ like stewed velvet, so she taught herself \/ to take it off.” The sisters’ environment of ocean and sand, forests and farmhouses, forms a lush backdrop to many of these poems. But later, as the speaker ages, we find ourselves in the mountains, in an art museum, in a spacecraft where a recorded voice “has the soft accent of someone only a generation or two removed from Earth.” The voice in these poems is the perfect mix of grief and imagination, quiet and explosion. Stay Safe is delicate and extraordinary, a powerful debut.","brand":"Sarabande Books, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40619958141011,"sku":"9781946448682","price":17.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781946448682_b92ab738-37c4-45f8-96ad-40e7562880b9.jpg?v=1765294241","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/stay-safe-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}