{"product_id":"the-river-wont-hold-you-paperback","title":"The River Won't Hold You - 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\u003eKarin Gottshall\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA haunting collection that peers into loneliness, memory, and the shadowed spaces we try and fail to leave behind.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaunting and haunted, \u003ci\u003eThe River Won't Hold You\u003c\/i\u003e navigates loneliness and loss with a quiet, relentless clarity. In poems shaped at the uneasy crossroads of imagination and lived experience, Karin Gottshall searches for solace in the charged spaces between them. \"I tell myself I can be content with the pleasures \/ permitted ghosts,\" she writes in \"Afterlife,\" \"but my body wakes up \/ leaking saltwater, and won't let my ghost-self be.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross the collection, poetic structure and the music of language become vessels for memory, philosophy, and ache. Generous in their formal range and attentive to both sound and silence, these poems resist tidy answers. The beauty of Gottshall's work arises from the steadiness of her gaze, and the startling precision of the images it lands on: \u003cbr\u003e\"Wide-open, staring eyes of the tiger \/ I drew and had to destroy because it wouldn't sleep.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe River Won't Hold You\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the places we fear most--the gaps, the afterlives, the undefinable spaces--can also be the ones that hold us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKaren Gottshall is the author of\u003ci\u003e Crocus \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe River Won't Hold You, \u003c\/i\u003eas well as the chapbooks \u003ci\u003eFlood Letters, Almanac for the Sleepless, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSwan. \u003c\/i\u003eShe teaches at Middlebury College in Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 74\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50350444347629,"sku":"9780814251898","price":20.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/oa9Ek0cOBi9780814251898.webp?v=1785271401","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/the-river-wont-hold-you-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}