{"product_id":"grief-for-the-green-that-was-paperback","title":"Grief for the Green That Was - Paperback","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\u003eJacob Shores-Argüello\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving tenderly across memory, continents, and literary forms, Jacob Shores-Argüello's tightly woven cross-genre collection evolves a private family bereavement into an exploration of collective ecological grief. Following the death of his mother, the speaker navigates between his Costa Rican heritage and his Oklahoma upbringing, eventually arriving at something like healing on the banks of New Zealand's Whanganui River--the first river in the world granted legal personhood. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStructured around a Spanish nursery rhyme, \u003ci\u003eGrief for the Green That Was\u003c\/i\u003e finds solace in the prospect of citizenship for a more-than-human world, a possibility it approaches through perspectival shifts and innovative forms--including footnoted poems, hybrid fiction, and an experimental choose-your-own-adventure sequence--that overturn lyric and storytelling conventions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA book about what we inherit and what we leave behind, both in families and in landscapes, \u003ci\u003eGrief for the Green That Was\u003c\/i\u003e examines how climate change affects not just the physical world but also our emotional and spiritual relationships to place. Here Shores-Argüello creates a new language for twenty-first-century grief that refuses to separate the personal from the planetary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacob Shores-Argüello is a Costa Rican American poet and prose writer. His second book, \u003ci\u003eParaíso\u003c\/i\u003e, was selected for the inaugural CantoMundo Poetry Prize. He is the 2024-25 Rome Prize in Literature winner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 136\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 9.04 x 7.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 25, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56198344180017,"sku":"9780816556281","price":19.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1004\/9532\/7537\/files\/xHxOcEZKeK9780816556281.webp?v=1788992956","url":"https:\/\/mitchellofficial.com\/products\/grief-for-the-green-that-was-paperback","provider":"MITCHELL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}