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A collection of unexpected, sharp poems that reveal what it is like to be lost in the wilderness-searching for home, where preference comes up against some surprising conflicts, both inward and external. At 48, Bisbing starts backpacking solo in Montana-where nature humbles her. Wildness is different in Montana. Bisbing, who once faced lions in Zimbabwe, finds her first grizzly sighting even more daunting. The bearded men in the backcountry, with their rifles, make the gang members in Chicago seem less intimidating. As a murder mystery author and the daughter of a renowned forensic scientist, it isn't by mistake that villains appear on her pages. She invites you to walk this treacherous path with her. Hit the pages like you're stepping onto the trail. Unearth the secrets hidden between the lines and discover what Bisbing found in the wild and in a diner booth.

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"""In Bisbing's rooted and riveting chapbook, we encounter a poetic voice that luminously inhabits the Western desolation without romanticizing it. There is a keen light in the eyes of this stoicism, at the heart of these petitions to wind and rock, which land so artfully 'somewhere between the sky and riverbed.'"" -Chris Dombrowski, author of The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water and of three acclaimed collections of poems ""The Price of the Repair is uncommonly raw, uncompromisingly honest, and quip and devastating in near equal measure. Bisbing's collection spans landscapes literal and ethereal with the kind of fearless alacrity that left me both troubled and moved."" -Smith Henderson, New York Times Notable Book winner and the winner of the 2015 John Creasy (New Blood) Dagger Award and the 2014 Montana Book Award ""In The Price of the Repair, Jennifer Bisbing explores both the still untamed wilderness and the depletion and impoverishment of America, capturing at the same time a person wrestling with their own desire for freedom and what holds them down. In delicate poems haunted and hunted by the past, she writes of the pleasures and longings of solitary exploration. And in poems tethered to small-town America, she portrays the beauty and ugliness of trying to make a life in narrow circumstances. As her character moves across, and is caught by, the landscape, these poems offer the spirited voice of a woman who ultimately cannot be held down."" -Ariana Nash, MacDowell and an Academy of American Poets prize-winning poet"

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Jennifer Bisbing is an award-winning book editor and photographer originally from the Midwest who now lives on Whidbey Island. She writes book reviews for Montana Quarterly, and edits for several national and international publishers.

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