{"product_id":"swamp-monster-at-home-paperback","title":"Swamp Monster at Home - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCatherine W. Carter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Catherine Carter's \u003ci\u003eThe Swamp Monster at Home\u003c\/i\u003e, classical sirens sing from a Chesapeake Bay island; Adam and his lover, Steve, share beers in Eden; and a Norse goddess strides into an emergency room, \"glowing like grain.\" With quirky imagination and wry humor, Carter exposes the connections between human and nonhuman, blood and home. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBuilding from \u003ci\u003eThe Memory of Gills\u003c\/i\u003e, Carter's debut collection and winner of the Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry, these vivid and tender poems consider the immanent and sometimes animistic natural world. \u003ci\u003eThe Swamp Monster at Home\u003c\/i\u003e, however, takes new risks, offering a deeper vulnerability and greater maturity; this new collection acknowledges the loves within and outside of marriage and confesses to both the grief and relief of miscarriage. Varied in form, \u003ci\u003eThe Swamp Monster at Home\u003c\/i\u003e offers accessible and rewarding, elegiac yet hopeful poems--an exciting new collection from a remarkable writer.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatherine Carter\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Memory of Gills\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2007 Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry 2009\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOrion, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She is native to the Eastern Shore of Maryland and now directs the English Education program at Western Carolina University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 78\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 8.47 x 5.54 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 13, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50314942906605,"sku":"9780807142806","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/thREJC2_tk9780807142806.webp?v=1784672686","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/swamp-monster-at-home-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}