{"product_id":"by-stone-and-needle-poems-paperback-softback-9780807185070","title":"By Stone and Needle; Poems (Paperback \/ softback) 9780807185070","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBy Stone and Needle\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePoems\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCatherine W. Carter (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780807185070\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 July 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e128 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm, 0.208 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"In these superb poems, Catherine Carter reveals another world, centered in nature, with a visual and verbal attentiveness that feels not so much observed as \u003ci\u003econjured,\u003c\/i\u003e summoned in all its richness and mystery. As much as I admire Carter's previous volumes, \u003ci\u003eBy Stone and Needle\u003c\/i\u003e takes her poetry to a greater and singular level of craft and insight. Brilliant.\" - Ron Rash\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2025 L. E. Phillabaum Poetry Award\u003c\/b\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tShimmering to the pulse of the unseen, \u003ci\u003eBy Stone and Needle \u003c\/i\u003ecircles like a compass needle around the figure of the witch. Catherine Carter concocts a book of secular spells and incantations for engaging with, and meditating upon, a world in which all things are connected, in which symbol slides into literal, spirituality into science, exact observation into lamentation and love. \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tThe poems in \u003ci\u003eBy Stone and Needle \u003c\/i\u003espin connecting threads between night sweats, witch drownings, creation stories, pedicures, goddesses—and, especially, between miraculously interconnected ecosystems and the forces that threaten them. Speakers encompass personae including lactobacilli bacteria, bodily yeasts, and the classical witch Medea, while elsewhere a contemporary version of the goddess Artemis appears in Appalachia. Carter's poetic vision imbues everyday moments such as putting on a coat, piercing an ear, confronting racism and patriarchy, or eating onion slices with a new definition of magic as \"the human thing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551799144728,"sku":"9780807185070","price":16.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/by-stone-and-needle-poems-paperback-softback-9780807185070","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}