{"product_id":"here-and-elsewhere-collected-poems-paperback","title":"Here and Elsewhere: Collected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSandra McGarry\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSandra McGarry writes poetry, she tells us at the outset, because buttons have holes and so does history. \u003cem\u003eHere and Elsewhere\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection built from those small, durable objects-a grandmother's button box, a dented fruitcake tin, a whistling kettle, a screen door, a shoebox of someone else's photographs found at a garage sale-and from what they hold: a childhood interrupted when both parents died within 22 months of each other, a fourth-grade classroom, a marriage, the long life that followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems are quilt blocks, each one a square of a particular day, arranged so that the years show through. They begin in the East, by the ocean, and end in the mountains of northern Colorado, where geese rise off a pond at first light and the world, as one poem admits, is fracturing in places the poet can't even name. What holds against that fracturing is attention: to a lemon, to a puddle, to the way a name said aloud brings a whole house back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a cover photograph by Pat Slentz, this is a collection from a poet who has spent a lifetime looking closely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.22 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 06, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68341065449693,"sku":"9798952110021","price":34.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/wT7IKvHz69798952110021.webp?v=1793307102","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/here-and-elsewhere-collected-poems-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}