{"product_id":"cloud-runner","title":"Cloud Runner","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"mainContent___KncIm\"\u003e\u003cdiv role=\"tabpanel\" id=\"title-references-tabpanel-1\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"MuiBox-root css-old1by\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThree-term U.S. Poet Laureate returns with a moving collection about grief, loss, and how art can transform suffering.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLosing a child is one of the most unreconcilable griefs. In\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCloud Runner\u003c\/em\u003e, Joy Harjo reckons with the unspeakable pain of losing her daughter: “Reason has no home in this hour,” she writes. Despite a devasting loss, Harjo constructs a shrine to human resilience, reminding us that the most profound revelations can appear in our darkest hours: “I now know why we construct ceremonial epics of mystery and beauty, \/ Of enemy and failure: it is so we can pick up our burdens \/ And go on.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHarjo’s magical poems are known for weaving myth, song, and spirit. In this searing volume, her poems become essential witnesses to history, especially in our current era of compounded loss: mass shootings, missing and murdered Native women, climate disaster, and political violence.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCloud Runner\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eexplores how all grief may be connected; it is a testament to poetry’s power to speak what is unspeakable, to touch what the mind cannot carry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Cloud Runner:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I am Cloud Runner, you whispered, as I rinsed dishes and looked\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eout the window, the sun flaring dusky gold through our story. I\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003edried my hands and went outside to read the clouds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRemember me in my children and their children, you sang.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRemember me in poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRemember me when it rains, when the plants rise up in\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003egreen to drink.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRemember me in butterflies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd then, you were gone.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67737737134234,"sku":"9858","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/3946\/9466\/files\/9858CloudRunner.jpg?v=1791903631","url":"https:\/\/uuabookstore.org\/products\/cloud-runner","provider":"inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}