{"product_id":"book-hmgp","title":"Pacific Power \u0026 Light","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe award-winning poet returns to his homeplace in the Pacific Northwest, where the neighborhood simmers with the chemical presence of human trouble and sparks of beauty coexist with danger.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis image-driven, sound-driven collection carries us to the working-class Portland neighborhood of Lents, where Dickman was raised by a single mother. Here, as a skateboarding boy practices his kickflip on the street, enlightenment simmers under the surface of both the natural world and the human constructions that threaten it. The rivers shrinking to a trickle, the unaddressed crisis of homelessness, the drug use in a local park: these run side by side with the efforts and structures of families, created mostly by working mothers, with their jumbled bottomless purses and full-time jobs; Dickman’s own mother worked at the power company of the title, PP\u0026amp;L. His exquisite, ultrareal narratives take us down through these layers, illuminating the way we’ve treated and should treat one another, seeking integrity and understanding in the midst of a broken world.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":50137916277040,"sku":"BDhmgp","price":7.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/hmgp-cover.jpg?v=1758148661","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-hmgp","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}