{"product_id":"what-he-took","title":"What He Took","description":"\u003cp\u003e\r\n\tWinner, The 2002 Sheila Margaret Motton Prize from the New England Poetry Club\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tIn \u003cem\u003eWhat He Took\u003c\/em\u003e, Wendy Mnookin explores early loss. Trying to understand the death of her father when she was two, Mnookin considers memory and imagination and how they merge in our efforts to salvage the past. The poems move from the time of his death to the years of growing up with a new father, making her way into adulthood, marrying and starting her own family, always with a longing for the absent father and a sense of the nearness of loss. “What He Took is an elegy to the father Wendy Mnookin lost to an automobile accident when she was a child. It is also a book of passage, of her journey from the day, stranded in a field, to an adulthood informed by that day. . . . This collection, this whole, is rich in unpretentious, lyrical poems.” —Lola Haskins \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\t\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tThis Is It \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tHe needs to think of what's important.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tAnd so my father thinks of plums,\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tthe small hard plums he found by the road\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tthe summer he was seventeen\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tand biked through France.  The first bite\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\twas tart, almost bitter— \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\the sucked in his cheeks with surprise—\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tbut somehow the next was sweeter.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t© BOA Editions, Ltd 2002\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tAvailable editions:\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPaperback ISBN: 1-929918-19-4\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPrice: $13.95 \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPublishing Date: May 2002\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8419355781,"sku":"1929918194","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/WHAT_HE_TOOK.jpg?v=1527683782","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/what-he-took","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}