{"product_id":"the-words-we-do-not-have-paperback","title":"The Words We Do Not Have - 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\u003eSteve Brisendine\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn The Words We Do Not Have\u003c\/em\u003e, Steve Brisendine brings experience into sharp focus-a road trip with his son, evenings spent playing pool, an abused childhood classmate-along with meditative explorations of life, death, aging, and faith. The author employs as a title for each poem an unusual foreign word (along with its definition), a strategy that unifies the collection, while also yielding delightful and unexpected trajectories as the poems unfold. Brisendine's imaginative lexicon offers us a space where \"a heart has\/ spilled itself, where words bloomed\/ into something past words.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -Janice Northerns, author of\u003cem\u003e Some Electric Hum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We have enough wind in Kansas,\" Steve Brisendine opens his excellent new book. \"When you \/ walk into it, it pulls.\" Beginning with the language of wind, Brisbane reveals a dark world through a series of tongues. In \"Mokita,\" a classmate is abused and silent, eventually dead. We learn the title's Kilivila meaning: \"something everyone knows but no one talks about.\" Outlining a \"slippery downhill way,\" these grave, sometimes minutial poems (as in \"Qarba,\" the appearance of white hairs in a man's beard) highlight how life gives us \"hope of reunion . . . but also the knowledge that such might never happen. Dark, global, nuanced in how it reveals a gritty world.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -Tyler Robert Sheldon, Editor-in-Chief of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eMockingHeart Review\u003c\/em\u003e and author of \u003cem\u003eConsolation \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Prize\u003c\/em\u003e (Finishing Line Press, 2018)\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 84\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 02, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47582120378589,"sku":"9781952411526","price":16.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/QppPOH7RIj9781952411526.webp?v=1773569759","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/the-words-we-do-not-have-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}