{"product_id":"the-words-we-do-not-have","title":"The Words We Do Not Have","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn The Words We Do Not Have, 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-Janice Northerns, author of Some Electric Hum\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-Tyler Robert Sheldon, Editor-in-Chief of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMockingHeart Review and author of Consolation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrize (Finishing Line Press, 2018)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spartan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53022086824047,"sku":"9781952411526","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2488\/1775\/files\/9781952411526.jpg?v=1777322802","url":"https:\/\/bookclubkc.com\/products\/the-words-we-do-not-have","provider":"The Book Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}