{"product_id":"blood-wolf-moon-poems-hardcover","title":"Blood Wolf Moon: Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElise Paschen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A magical map of memory and vision.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Dean Rader, author of \u003cem\u003eSelf-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn her mesmerizing sixth poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eBlood Wolf Moon\u003c\/em\u003e, Elise Paschen weaves constellations throughout, of stars and birds and light and darkness and beauty and horror and nature and humans and history, making shape and meaning of what's around us and even who we are.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this riveting sixth poetry collection, Paschen explores the story lines of her Osage heritage. The core of the book grapples with a dark period of American history, \"The Reign of Terror,\" when outsiders murdered individual members of the Osage for their oil headrights. Paschen searches her cultural past and family history in poems about the land, ancestors, childhood, loss, nature, transformation, flight and language.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this cinematic book, she builds drama in overlapping narratives, reinventing ways to approach the line on the page. Described by poet Timothy Donnelly as \"one of today's most formally astute poets,\" Paschen opens \u003cem\u003eBlood Wolf Moon\u003c\/em\u003e with the long poem, \"Heritage,\" a bracelet of crown poems, then shifts registers to formal poems and prose sequences. Poet and editor Ester Belin calls the concluding poems with their use of Osage language, \"significant leaps into literary sovereignty.\" \u003cem\u003eBlood Wolf Moon\u003c\/em\u003e Captivates with its emotional intensity and unrelenting quest for the translation of identity. It's a book you can't put down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElise Paschen\u003c\/strong\u003e, an enrolled member of the Osage Nation, is the author of \u003cem\u003eTallcheif, The Nightlife, Bestiary, Infidelities\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize) and \u003cem\u003eHouses: Coasts\u003c\/em\u003e. As an undergraduate at Harvard, she received the Garrison Medal for poetry. She holds MPhil and DPhil degrees from Oxford University. Her poems have been published widely, including in \u003cem\u003ePoetry\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWhen the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e. She is the editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Eloquent Poem\u003c\/em\u003e and has edited or coedited numerous other anthologies including the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller, \u003cem\u003ePoetry Speaks\u003c\/em\u003e. A cofounder of \u003cem\u003ePoetry in Motion\u003c\/em\u003e, Paschen teaches in the MFA Writing program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.25 x 9.25 x 7.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 12, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46030591164552,"sku":"9781761538087","price":41.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/7168\/9864\/files\/j5khWS8Fdj9781636285337.webp?v=1780734293","url":"https:\/\/birzeitsociety.myshopify.com\/fr\/products\/blood-wolf-moon-poems-hardcover","provider":"Birzeit Society Online Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}