{"product_id":"a-leaf-called-socrates-poetry-memoir-by-ann-holmes-paperback","title":"A Leaf Called Socrates: Poetry Memoir by Ann Holmes - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnn Holmes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe interplay of the written word and the painted image converge in Ann Holmes' skillfully crafted poetry. Holmes gets inside the action of a poem, imagining what it is like to be the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, a goat in Greece, spring beginning, a cloud refusing to change its form. Love, loss, wonder, and the quirkiness of life leap off the page.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"How rich a palette, poet-artist Ann Holmes' brings to her second collection \"A Leaf Called Socrates.\" How powerful is her artist pen as she approaches biblical and ancient figures as intimates. \"I glaze a Bosch bubble\/around Adam and Eve\/so they may stay in the garden.\" With engines of irony and honesty, her poem \"When I knew,\" creates a loving reproach to intimate family encounters. Her poems, revealing human frailties, glow nonetheless, with color and affection. After her sojourn as an artist in Japan, she evokes a place where 'Seven round holes\/one above the other\/\"exist, \"as if the moon\/ dropped out\/ of the sky.\" In this new collection of poetry, her language, phrase and imagery paint emotional hues to reveal people in their flaws and creative gifts.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e -Lou Barrett, author of \u003ci\u003eConnecting Flights, Doors Gates\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePortals, Clotheslines\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 29, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42169183699079,"sku":"9781450281447","price":10.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/84a2bce0945ebc7d3388fc7bb5edc8a5.webp?v=1733339797","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/a-leaf-called-socrates-poetry-memoir-by-ann-holmes-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}