{"product_id":"ocean-of-clouds-poems","title":"Ocean of Clouds: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eNAMED AN ESSENTIAL READ OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eTHE New Yorker - \u003c\/i\u003eIn 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\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 . . .\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0593802039\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780593802038\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Hongo, Garrett\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Jun 2025)","offer_id":46080232161477,"sku":"9780593802038","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780593802038.jpg?v=1776035562","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/ocean-of-clouds-poems","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}