{"product_id":"new-american-summer","title":"New American Summer","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Kristen Gallagher\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Spiral Editions (2026)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"a dog at the beach\u003cbr\u003estaring at the horizon\u003cbr\u003eis ridiculous\u003cbr\u003eand sweet.\u003cbr\u003eI feel ridiculous\u003cbr\u003eup late writing to see\u003cbr\u003eif anything good happens\u003cbr\u003emaybe that’s a problem\u003cbr\u003eI think it’s magic instead of skill\u003cbr\u003emaybe that’s the world’s problem\u003cbr\u003ethey were taught it’s skill and not magic\u003cbr\u003eI keep writing hoping to find out\u003cbr\u003ewhatever I find out\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKristen sez: \"A selection of poems arriving from notebooks I kept from 2020 thru 2026. A release of some ongoing correspondences (as in Spicer): riding the colonial-era backroads, rehabilitating my mother’s garden, and learning death’s dark humor in haunted Pennsylvania. Back and forth to Queens; union organizing as resisting the “normal.” Learning a poetry with no final outcome: an interruption, a snapshot, a negotiated truce...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe say: These are poems for park bench and bedside, for out loud recitation under or not under trees; small amulets that act as convex psychedelic mirrors to our known world, signposts and premonitions to the world we'd like to know. \"there are only seven minutes in eternity \/ the rest is phenomenal life \/ false gods, graffiti and\u003cbr\u003e\/ the glue of existence.\" It's a bit of poetry church: softly Schuyler, softly Tu Fu. Like a small distant star that brings an agreeable amount of warmth and light, just enough to reveal the true bits under the dermis of the fake world--and one that we might be able to slightly bend our own ears and eyes to hear and witness the scratches and songs illumined and light-cast. A book made for a back pocket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKristen Gallagher’s books include 85% True\/Minor Ecologies (Skeleton Man, 2017), Grand Central (Troll Thread, 2016), and We Are Here (Truck Books, 2011). She is a professor of English at City University of New York — LaGuardia Community College in Queens, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spiral Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44253472817251,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/8655\/1139\/files\/260205_Spiral_Editions_New_American_Summer_IG1.jpg?v=1781308549","url":"https:\/\/woodlandpatternbookcenter.com\/products\/new-american-summer","provider":"Woodland Pattern","version":"1.0","type":"link"}