{"product_id":"9781772123166","title":"Little Wildheart","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy turns quirky, startling, earthy, and hope-filled, Micheline Maylor’s poems slip effortlessly through topics ranging from what we give up as we age to regrets for love that has passed, the interplay between the animal world and human thought, and the myths we append to ourselves and others. An expansive, conversational voice underscores the poet’s technical mastery as her subjects turn from love to hope to fearlessness. Maylor asks readers to perceive how we inhabit our selves, how words construct us. Little Wildheart is rich with challenge and surprise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI check the box on the government forms: Caucasian. No box\n\u003cbr\u003efor colonized, for the 1\/16th bred. Just the double helix of my DNA,\n\u003cbr\u003emy ability to sun-brown, and my own green-eyed children\n\u003cbr\u003eof the voyageur, river visions still caught in their irises.\n\u003cbr\u003eWe’re born out of a long ago season.\n\u003cbr\u003eEveryone is sure of place and race. Blood and semen\n\u003cbr\u003emixed in dirt and cervix, convex and enchanted by muskrat’s eerie smile,\n\u003cbr\u003edark truth furred and matted, stroked by a river paddle.\n\u003cbr\u003eLet that long tooth bite now in the land of the race riots,\n\u003cbr\u003enegro, and redskin, the underground railroad,\n\u003cbr\u003eand the Indian village.\n\u003cbr\u003eLet the name Pontiac take new form and hit the road,\n\u003cbr\u003ethe righteous mile where judgement and boundary blurs,\n\u003cbr\u003eespecially on matters of composition\n\u003cbr\u003eblood, bone, and relations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e—from “Detroit Zoo bathroom 1977”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Micheline Maylor (CA)","offers":[{"title":"University of Alberta Press |  Electronic book text | Reflowable |  2017-02-09","offer_id":46135063314687,"sku":"9781772123166","price":23.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_66e4d85e-1c86-4af1-b23c-74d428fedf8a.jpg?v=1726423907","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781772123166","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}