{"product_id":"answer-the-door-paperback","title":"Answer the Door - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDiane Kistner\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eChristopher Bursk\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Choose one or the other, demands the light. \/ Choose both, says the dark.\" ANSWER THE DOOR votes with the dark and its predilection for paradox and possibility. These poems invite readers into a world populated by imaginary friends, 1950s television icons, inmates at a county prison, lead pirates, plastic knights, a Sunday school class and Jesus's secret lover, Quintilian and Oneal Moore, Salome and Deborah Kerr, Pixie the Dog and a cat named Schr dinger. The book is grounded in the resonant particulars of our daily lives and in the longings that inform them; it puts its faith in the mysteries inherent in these lives and in these longings. It trusts in language's insatiable hungers. It argues for a justice inseparable from compassion and a beauty inextricable from loss. It is grateful for the hard work of propositions to keep us rooted in time and place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.22 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 03, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42103568892039,"sku":"9781942371892","price":21.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/bc4e38d854b83d37b3a0de9e6a123130.webp?v=1732414900","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/answer-the-door-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}