{"product_id":"somehow-balanced","title":"Somehow Balanced","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eNow retired from a career teaching college English, \u003cstrong\u003eRalph Stevens\u003c\/strong\u003e lives in Ellsworth, Maine with his wife, the photographer Sally Rowan. Stevens has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and is the author of the collections \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eAt Bunker Cove \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e(Moon Pie Press, 2017), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eThings Haven’t Been the Same \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e(Finishing Line Press, 2020), and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eWater under Snow \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e(Wipf and Stock: Resource Publications, 2021). \u003c\/span\u003eHe is a regular contributor to the online journal \u003ci\u003eVerse Virtual,\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehis poems have appeared in \u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003ea variety of publications\u003c\/span\u003e and on the radio programs \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eThe Writer’s Almanac \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003ePoems from Here.\u003c\/i\u003e Ralph’s poetry reflects and is inspired by the natural world and by an interest in the role of consciousness in the relationship between the human and non-human. For him the “non-human” is not just the wildlife—the loons, deer, crows that appear in his poems—but even that world we think of as “unconscious”: trees, corn, the wind itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback: 88 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books (June 5, 2024)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43220578664510,"sku":"zim1787286986250","price":12.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/0075\/8846\/files\/somehow-balanced_1.jpg?v=1787286991","url":"https:\/\/urbanglamboutique.shop\/products\/somehow-balanced","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}