{"product_id":"captivity-isbn-9780375711442","title":"Captivity","description":"The “exquisite and haunting” (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e) collection of poems built around the language and mystique of American captivity narratives in which Sheck enters the vivid life we live inside our own minds and selves, and takes us into the mysterious underside of consciousness and selfhood.“Sheck [is] one of the most accomplished lyric poets writing in America today.” —\u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“These lyrics bring fresh insight out of numbness and joy out of sorrow.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New Leader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaurie Sheck \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of five books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eBlack Series \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Willow Grove\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She lives in New York City\u003cb\u003eThe First Remove\u003c\/b\u003eThe others hiding away when they took her.\u003ci\u003e    Eventually I learned other words. Assere for knives. Toras: North. Satewa: alone.\u003c\/i\u003eAlways a breakdown of systems that will not be restored.\u003ci\u003e    Something cuts itself in me. It’s not a question of refusal.Esteronde: to rain. Tesenochte: I do not know.\u003c\/i\u003e    The shattered of, and then the narrowness opening where the vanished touches it–Then how the mind recombines and overthrows–\u003cb\u003eThe Fourth Remove\u003c\/b\u003eThe way sunlight amends    The eyes, too, grow practiced in unsteadiness and fracture.I write this to you on air as I walk, but I think now all summary is betrayal.    I picture your hands lifting a fork or folding cloth, while at the same timeI’m thinking, \u003ci\u003eit was believed if their cornfields were cut down they would starve and die with hunger,    \u003c\/i\u003eAnd \u003ci\u003ewas missing from \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ecould learn no tidings \u003c\/i\u003e. . . And \u003ci\u003ethey who have taken meWere driven from the little they had . . . he fetched me some water and told me    I could wash. \u003c\/i\u003eAll these so braided, where hurt is building nimbly.I feel a pleasure of \u003ci\u003enever contained \u003c\/i\u003esweep over me, now that I know place is never    Clear or wholly settled, not even the veins on the underside of a leaf, its freedoms.Crossing is a hard simple. The feet register the merest intervals and shifts;    All that is tracked is also otherwise and hidden.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd water lies plainly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThen I came to an edge of very calm    But couldn’t stay there. It was the washed greenblue mapmakers use to indicateInlets and coves, softbroken contours where the land leaves off    And water lies plainly, as if lamped by its own justice. I hardly know how to say how it wasThough it spoke to me most kindly,    Unlike a hard afterwards or the motions of forestalling.Now in evening light the far-off ridge carries marks of burning.    The hills turn thundercolored, and my thoughts move toward them, rough skinsWithout their bodies. What is the part of us that feels it isn’t named, that doesn’t know    How to respond to any name? That scarcely or not at all can lift its headInto the blue and so unfold there?","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301781852389,"sku":"NP9780375711442","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375711442.jpg?v=1767723387","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/captivity-isbn-9780375711442","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}