{"product_id":"midsummer-count-selected-poems-from-mary-burritt-christiansen-series","title":"Midsummer Count: New and Selected Poems (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry)","description":"\u003cp\u003eChildhood, animals, friendships and love keep returning across a lifetime of poems. Robin Becker gathers a selection from each of her earlier books and adds nearly thirty new ones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReadical Key Points\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew and selected poems: work from each of Becker's earlier collections, plus nearly thirty poems new to this book\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForms range from free and blank verse to couplets, quatrains and sonnets\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContent note: grief over a sister's suicide recurs across the collection\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback, 162 pages, UNM Press, 2026; published in the Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry series\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems move through childhood, animals, cherished places, complicated friendships and romantic love, and they hold grief and warmth side by side. Read together, the older selections and the new work let a subject come back years later with more behind it. Becker's formal range shows up across the book, from loose free verse to the tight turn of a sonnet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReaders who already know Becker's collections, including \u003cem\u003eAll-American Girl\u003c\/em\u003e, can find a selection from those books in one volume, and newcomers to feminist and LGBTQ+ poetry get a broad introduction to her work. Every subject that returns in these pages comes back carrying the years it has lived through.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobin Becker has published eight earlier poetry collections, among them \u003cem\u003eThe Black Bear Inside Me\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAll-American Girl\u003c\/em\u003e, which won a Lambda Literary Award; both appeared in the Pitt Poetry Series. She is a liberal arts research professor emerita in English and women's studies at Pennsylvania State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Brand New and Readical Ready.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReadical™ is an independent bookstore and reading-products brand built around a simple idea: books matter most when what we learn leaves the page and enters our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eApply the Page. Get Readical™.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UNM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47854469644437,"sku":"NEW-ING-0826369332","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0800\/5861\/3909\/files\/57_2e9a0b81-6e89-4c75-aa99-5002460c564d.jpg?v=1787902390","url":"https:\/\/readical.com\/products\/midsummer-count-selected-poems-from-mary-burritt-christiansen-series","provider":"Readical","version":"1.0","type":"link"}