{"product_id":"cloud-runner","title":"Cloud Runner","description":"\u003cp\u003eLosing a child is one of the most unreconcilable griefs. In \u003cem\u003eCloud Runner\u003c\/em\u003e, Joy Harjo reckons with the unspeakable pain of losing her daughter: \"Reason has no home in this hour,\" she writes. Despite a devasting loss, Harjo constructs a shrine to human resilience, reminding us that the most profound revelations can appear in our darkest hours: \"I now know why we construct ceremonial epics of mystery and beauty, \/ Of enemy and failure: it is so we can pick up our burdens \/ And go on.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarjo’s magical poems are known for weaving myth, song, and spirit. In this searing volume, her poems become essential witnesses to history, especially in our current era of compounded loss: mass shootings, missing and murdered Native women, climate disaster, and political violence. \u003cem\u003eCloud Runner\u003c\/em\u003e explores how all grief may be connected; it is a testament to poetry’s power to speak what is unspeakable, to touch what the mind cannot carry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Cloud Runner:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I am Cloud Runner, you whispered, as I rinsed dishes and looked\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eout the window, the sun flaring dusky gold through our story. I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edried my hands and went outside to read the clouds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRemember me in my children and their children, you sang.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRemember me in poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRemember me when it rains, when the plants rise up in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egreen to drink.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRemember me in butterflies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd then, you were gone.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57503820349813,"sku":"9781324123651","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/cloud-runner","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}