{"product_id":"ocean-of-clouds-poems","title":"Ocean of Clouds: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his fourth book of poems, award-winning poet Garrett Hongo sees coastlines and waters, skylines and ancestral lines for what they inspire and teach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith his characteristic long-lined, rolling music, Hongo is alert to the possibilities of individual moments of perception and grace in the landscapes of his life, whether waiting for a ferry in Balboa after a writing workshop (\"An oil slick from a yacht . . . \/ Spread rainbows on the water, an aleph \/ curving toward us\") or hanging out and playing LPs with the late, great poet Michael Harper, or watching his daughter in the sun with a halo of messy twelve-year-old's hair, or listening to the sea, which speaks to him in so many places- at the Wai'opae Tidepools, at Cassis, at Divi Bay in Saint Martin, where, he tells us, \"I thought of writing to the soul of Nazim Hikmet, \/ saying loving a woman was like writing a book- \/ . . . it is love's body on which you write a page of kisses . . .\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese poems of cloudy moons and sandstone cliffsides, the black glass of lava shattered into sands, waves surging, and stories of a poet's gratitude for the journey he has made, come together to make a paean against forgetting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Garrett Hongo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44953349685295,"sku":"9780593802038","price":2299.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/9780593802038.jpg?v=1770798988","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/ocean-of-clouds-poems","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}