{"product_id":"let-our-bodies-change-the-subject-paperback-softback-9781496237293","title":"Let Our Bodies Change the Subject (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496237293","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLet Our Bodies Change the Subject\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJared Harél (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496237293\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 September 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e80 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 0.9 cm, 0.666 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\u003cdiv\u003e\"For readers who are parents, they will find fellow feeling. For readers who are not parents (like myself) but have always found their own parents to be mysterious, this book provides a lucid possibility of what we might have known, had we opportunity. HarÉl offers the most generous version, of a father who labors to comfort his children without betraying his integrity.\"-Esther Lin, \u003ci\u003eCortland Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"These poems speak to us because HarÉl's angst is relatable and real and cannot be wished away or dismissed with rational explanations or neat poetic pronouncements. If we choose to journey with him, we can keep exploring the questions together and benefit from his companionship as we continue to explore the enigma of what it means to be human. There is joy and truth in that.\"-Karen Corinne Herceg, \u003ci\u003ediode poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“This life, Jared HarÉl says, is a sad rollercoaster, all of us with our arms up, screaming on the way down. Thwarted desires, the many losses, school shootings, bomb museums, plague, all seen through the eyes of parents and children. Even so, there are ‘sorbet-colored koi’ in a pond, a daughter singing, a father donating blood to the Red Cross, sea stars, morning prayers before work with Tefillin in sweatpants and socks. This book was written with, what Czeslaw Milosz is quoted as saying, ‘compassion for others entangled in the flesh.’”-Dorianne Laux, author of \u003ci\u003eOnly As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Meet Death in the guise of family, Desire in the kitchen, Lost Love in the driveway, Terror in an old truck, and Misfortune in waking up. Each clear and short poem deals with The Unimaginable and imagines it. How can anyone not need this book?”-Hilda Raz, author of \u003ci\u003eLetter from a Place I’ve Never Been\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Jared HarÉl explores the fullness of family-what it’s like to be a parent, with gun violence, hate, and disease lurking in the shadows but also awe and joy, and what it’s like to be a brother, a husband, a son, and holy skeptic. These poems-simple and heavy at the same time, smooth with crisp images-will bring you closer to yourself and the people you love.”-Jeffrey McDaniel, author of \u003ci\u003eThin Ice Olympics\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2023 National Jewish Book Award \u003cbr\u003e Finalist for the 2024 Paterson Poetry Prize \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLet Our Bodies Change the Subject\u003c\/i\u003e is a poetry collection that dives headlong into the terrifying, wondrous, sleep-deprived existence of being a parent in twenty-first-century America. In clear, dynamic verses that disarm then strike, Jared HarÉl investigates our days through the keyhole of domesticity, through personal lyrics and cultural reckonings. Whether taking a family trip to Coney Island or simply showing his son snowflakes on Inauguration morning, HarÉl guides us toward moments of intimacy and understanding, humor and grief.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “I will try,” he admits, “to be better than myself, which is all\/I’ve ever wanted and everything I need.” Winner of the Raz\/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, \u003ci\u003eLet Our Bodies Change the Subject\u003c\/i\u003e is a secular prayer. Hoping against hope, HarÉl works to reconcile feelings of luck and loss, of living for joy while fearing the worst.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSource Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e I.\u003cbr\u003e Sad Rollercoaster\u003cbr\u003e All I’\u003cbr\u003eve Ever Wanted\u003cbr\u003e The Sweet Spot\u003cbr\u003e Overnight\u003cbr\u003e Beer Run\u003cbr\u003e Swim Lessons\u003cbr\u003e The Perimeter\u003cbr\u003e Plastic Butterflies\u003cbr\u003e Takeaways\u003cbr\u003e Elegy for Recycled Encyclopedias\u003cbr\u003e A Moving Grove\u003cbr\u003e Let Our Bodies Change the Subject\u003cbr\u003e II.\u003cbr\u003e Good Star\u003cbr\u003e Starfish\u003cbr\u003e As Plagues Go\u003cbr\u003e Achilles\u003cbr\u003e Hold\u003cbr\u003e Along the Path to Washington Irving’\u003cbr\u003es House\u003cbr\u003e Water Damage\u003cbr\u003e A Childhood of Nannies\u003cbr\u003e Excavations in Salemi, Sicily\u003cbr\u003e The Great American Eclipse\u003cbr\u003e Self-Portrait as Nature Preserve\u003cbr\u003e Tefillin\u003cbr\u003e My Stupid Pride\u003cbr\u003e III.\u003cbr\u003e Behind the Painted Guardrail\u003cbr\u003e My Grandfather Dreams I Am Dead\u003cbr\u003e Engaged\u003cbr\u003e Cordoba\u003cbr\u003e On Suffering\u003cbr\u003e Every Time I Think My Life Is Hard, There’\u003cbr\u003es Someone in the Sky Reminding Me to Zip It\u003cbr\u003e Our Wedding\u003cbr\u003e Too Soon in San Antonio\u003cbr\u003e Having a Third\u003cbr\u003e Survival Mode\u003cbr\u003e The Secular among Us\u003cbr\u003e If I Never Find God\u003cbr\u003e Final Kindness\u003cbr\u003e IV.\u003cbr\u003e Portrait of a Heron\u003cbr\u003e Birthday\u003cbr\u003e Primal\u003cbr\u003e You Want It Darker (2016)\u003cbr\u003e January 20, 2021\u003cbr\u003e Spring Crush\u003cbr\u003e Slow Dance\u003cbr\u003e The Other Side of Desire\u003cbr\u003e Spring\u003cbr\u003e Ruins\u003cbr\u003e Kin\u003cbr\u003e Dolls Can’\u003cbr\u003et Talk\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52734618009880,"sku":"9781496237293","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/let-our-bodies-change-the-subject-paperback-softback-9781496237293","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}