{"product_id":"we-interrupt-this-broadcast-poems","title":"We Interrupt This Broadcast: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom a master lyric poet characterized by Mary Oliver as \"a Walt Whitman without an inch of Whitman's bunting and oratory\" comes this late-life collection that takes its overall title from the venerable phrase that alerted listeners and viewers to an urgent event of public significance. Again and again, the poems in \u003cem\u003eWe Interrupt This Broadcast\u003c\/em\u003e dramatize, in simple and deep language, what it feels like to be alive in our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe disconnects that haunt and animate these poems are political, ecological, and psychological. Some, like \"Un-Earth: A Sequence,\" revisit early trauma experienced both intimately and socially, while others contemplate our present ecological crises.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against this somber background of disconnects, Gregory Orr invokes the natural world and human intimacy as sources of growth and hope. Giving voice to both personal and universal anguish, \u003cem\u003eWe Interrupt This Broadcast\u003c\/em\u003e repeatedly transforms desolation into celebration, silence and suffering into song.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \"So often there's a disconnect . . .\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eSo often there's a disconnect: \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e \u003cbr\u003e You know the world\u003cbr\u003e Is ending and you eat your soup.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eI'm weeding in my garden\u003cbr\u003e As a flash flood warning\u003cbr\u003e Comes my way, complete with siren.\u003cbr\u003e The sky's gray, but nothing else\u003cbr\u003e Indicates so dire a situation.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gregory Orr","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47612159721708,"sku":"9781324124238","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781324124238.jpg?v=1778284497","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/we-interrupt-this-broadcast-poems","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}