{"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":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54266069909870,"sku":"9781324123651","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_be76286d-d87f-488b-9178-536d74ab3061.jpg?v=1783278914","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/cloud-runner","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}