{"product_id":"news-of-home","title":"News of Home","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn and raised in Hawai'i and living now in the continental United States, Kang Dean writes poems of heritage and the struggle each of us undergoes as we push the boundaries around us—be they ones of family or location—and how distance brings the wisdom that, \"when you let the island in you\/the road both does and doesn't lead you back.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStitches\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat can I say? I've even forgotten how\u003cbr\u003eto busy my hands with scraps of needle-\u003cbr\u003ework, dumb hands unwilling to commit to\u003cbr\u003ewhat the heart won't. Instead, I sit idle \u003cbr\u003estaring out windows. Nothing fits the contours\u003cbr\u003eof the landscape I was born to—absence\u003cbr\u003eof mountains, dense green, and salt air that smothers\u003cbr\u003elike family, like the waters I breathed penned\u003cbr\u003ein my mother's womb. Hard to say when I\u003cbr\u003echose this: nothing the hand does\u003cbr\u003ecan stitch time back to that place where mind and eye\u003cbr\u003emight mend the world to wholeness. Always\u003cbr\u003etwo worlds. What pattern governs this surface\u003cbr\u003einscrutable as the ocean, my mother's face?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd 1998 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAvailable editions: \u003cbr\u003e-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003ePrice: $12.50 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8418720517,"sku":"1880238667","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/NEW_OF_HOME.jpg?v=1527683302","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/news-of-home","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}