{"product_id":"still-house-in-the-desert-an-eco-contemplation-hardcover","title":"Still House in the Desert: An Eco-Contemplation - Hardcover","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\u003eBrenda Hillman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMeditations on time, space, and objects in houses, as well as lives of children, mothers, and non-human creatures in domestic spaces\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach of Brenda Hillman's books has been transformative for her readers, and her twelfth collection is no exception. Building on previous volumes about seasons, days and minutes, Hillman concludes her masterful quartet about time with an ecological journey into a family home of the mid-twentieth century. Here, magical poems explore rooms as opportunities for dream, and domestic objects as the dream-shapes where culture and imagination inform each other. In that way, the poet celebrates the layered lives of children and adults, including, strikingly, the life of her mother, a native of Brazil whose presence intimately links the processes of inner vision and daily tasks. Like Hillman's other pioneering work, these poems are personal and collective; they braid the spiritual, the scientific, the political, and the visionary. Short spare lyrics are placed beside longer pieces; small photos add to the visual structures of the pages. One long prose poem explores the child's neurological anxiety and the awakening of mid-century environmental consciousness, while another is a meditation on women's domestic work with textiles and the rhetoric of literary repetition. The closing sequence gives homage to unlikely intersections of humans with non-human lives, including dust mites, moths, and mycorrhizal roots. This remarkable collection will plunge readers into the mysteries of childhood and of childhood houses everywhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Sample Poem]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe newspaper \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSunlight crosses the room bearing elastic dust motes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClouds graze steadily over the house.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrucks cross the suburbs; they have been cleared for departure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe mother scours the morning paper for facts \u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp; uplifting stories, laughing-- \u003cbr\u003ealmost a little snort-- \u003cbr\u003emaybe it's disbelief, maybe\u003cbr\u003eit's puffs of air pushed out by her idea of God. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this line, it's the next century, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ein this line the mother \u0026amp; her little laugh are gone, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ein this line two ravens eat a carcass in Maryland, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ea hurried driver doesn't hit a fawn, \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ethe vote is being tallied, the red seeps across the map\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp; drips from the thick finger of Florida into a sea \u003cbr\u003e of pre-named storms, \u0026amp; the sea of blood rises, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethe small barge carrying corpses of fact \u0026amp; dream, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003etheir bones wrapped together in newsprint.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBRENDA HILLMAN was born in Tucson, Arizona, and has been an active part of the Bay Area literary community since 1975. She has published chapbooks with Penumbra Press, a+bend press, EmPress, A Minus Press, and Albion Books and is the author of twelve full-length collections from Wesleyan University Press, the most recent of which are \u003ci\u003eIn a Few Minutes Before Later \u003c\/i\u003e(2022), \u003ci\u003eSeasonal Works with Letters on Fire\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), which received the Griffin International Poetry Prize, and \u003ci\u003eExtra Hidden Life, among the Days\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), winner of the Northern California Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.82 x 9.18 x 6.78 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 08, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54094365950259,"sku":"9780819502414","price":37.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Q0KBQW4-mt9780819502414.webp?v=1789634849","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/still-house-in-the-desert-an-eco-contemplation-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}