{"product_id":"9781772122336","title":"Little Wildheart","description":"By turns quirky, startling, earthy, and hope-filled, Micheline Maylor’s poems slip effortlessly through topics ranging from what we give up as we age to regrets for love that has passed, the interplay between the animal world and human thought, and the myths we append to ourselves and others. An expansive, conversational voice underscores the poet’s technical mastery as her subjects turn from love to hope to fearlessness. Maylor asks readers to perceive how we inhabit our selves, how words construct us. Little Wildheart is rich with challenge and surprise.\n\nI check the box on the government forms: Caucasian. No box\nfor colonized, for the 1\/16th bred. Just the double helix of my DNA,\nmy ability to sun-brown, and my own green-eyed children\nof the voyageur, river visions still caught in their irises.\nWe’re born out of a long ago season.\nEveryone is sure of place and race. Blood and semen\nmixed in dirt and cervix, convex and enchanted by muskrat’s eerie smile,\ndark truth furred and matted, stroked by a river paddle.\nLet that long tooth bite now in the land of the race riots,\nnegro, and redskin, the underground railroad,\nand the Indian village.\nLet the name Pontiac take new form and hit the road,\nthe righteous mile where judgement and boundary blurs,\nespecially on matters of composition\nblood, bone, and relations.\n\n—from “Detroit Zoo bathroom 1977”","brand":"University of Alberta Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65418161750365,"sku":null,"price":12.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/3893\/2573\/files\/9781772122336_37f707ec-fe06-4b18-af21-3937f26e9f05.jpg?v=1789422509","url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/9781772122336","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}