{"product_id":"late-to-the-search-party-poems","title":"Late to the Search Party: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eA raw, crystalline debut poetry collection exploring themes of family, addiction, belonging, and loss--a searching elegy of the fissures that have come to define contemporary American life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe unsettled border between absence and presence haunts this stunning collection, in which poet laureate Steven Espada Dawson contemplates belonging, identity, family, and grief in poems about his own half-immigrant Mexican American family: his dying mother who raised him, his addict brother who has been missing for more than a decade, and his absent father. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChronicled in four parts, shifting restlessly between childhood memories, the sudden disappearance of his brother, and the inevitable loss of his ailing mother, \u003ci\u003eLate to the Search Party\u003c\/i\u003e explores what it means to be a family of one--to be orphaned, whether by fate or by circumstance. In language that is both grounded and ethereal, Dawson tallies the losses and looks at what remains: the frustration and anger, the bewilderment and sadness--and the affection and humor that makes itself felt in spite of everything. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA vivid and thoughtful meditation on love and loss, \u003ci\u003eLate to the Search Party\u003c\/i\u003e is an ode to the families that inspire and confound us all.","brand":"Steven Espada Dawson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46355191857388,"sku":"9781668081563","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781668081563.jpg?v=1744300785","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/late-to-the-search-party-poems","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}