{"product_id":"east-walnut-hills","title":"East Walnut Hills","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eEast Walnut Hills\u003c\/em\u003e is the debut collection of poems by Emily Spencer, the winner of the Zone 3 Press First Book Award in Poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\"East Walnut Hills, the breathtaking debut from Emily Spencer, creates a self through seeing. In this collection, the meandering and curious consciousness of the flaneur is joined with the intuitive visual strategies of the artist, tracing lines (architectural, historical, spiritual) through identity, voice, and place. This site-specific book is at once map and photograph, a history of place tied to the quotidian. For Spencer, to dwell is to understand the impact of memory, capitalism, education, and ecology on one's location. Cincinnati is nowhere and everywhere— humming with grief and life—in these exquisite poems.\" --\u003cstrong\u003eClaudia Rankine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In East Walnut Hills, the divine and the everyday are indistinguishable from one another. Eden is both mythically untouchable and just down the street in Cincinnati, Ohio. Emily Spencer leads us through these poems as if through the wings of a living museum, imploring us to take our time and look—really look. But Spencer is not our tour guide, she is the artist.'\" --\u003cstrong\u003ePaige Lewis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is a book that proceeds in electric hushes, spare and lithe and deeply smart. The poems wind their way through Ohio neighborhoods, through husks of industry and commerce, through transport and abandonment, through invitation and exclusion, through histories, presents, and futures of biodiverse community—gender, race, and class. East Walnut Hills is a brilliant achievement.\" --\u003cstrong\u003eNatalie Shapero\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Emily's crisp and alert poems are notations and noticings rooted in East Walnut Hills, Ohio. There is a warping of time, and people in these poems too: what is classic, what is new? How are traditions proscribed and inscribed? The lovely wordplay of Spencer's work, as a community-based global citizen, presents an expansive meditation on Black life and perception through residue, through the ghosts of where we, in the particular, have been and are.\" --\u003cstrong\u003eTracie Morris\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEmily Spencer\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eEast Walnut Hills\u003c\/em\u003e (Zone 3 Press, 2021) and winner of the Zone 3 Press First Book Award in Poetry. Her poems appear in the \u003cem\u003eKenyon Review, POETRY, Pleiades,\u003c\/em\u003e and elsewhere. Spencer earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is from Cincinnati, Ohio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Itasca Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54526379524371,"sku":"9781733150545","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/3521\/2563\/files\/9781733150545ita.jpg?v=1785852187","url":"https:\/\/danuc.net\/products\/east-walnut-hills","provider":"Danu's Wardrobe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}