{"product_id":"bending-toward-heaven-hardcover","title":"Bending Toward Heaven: Poems After the Art of Vincent Van Gogh - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSharon Fish Mooney\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We are surrounded by poetry on all sides,\" Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) once wrote to his brother Theo. His art was a reflection of this belief. In these ekphrastic sonnets, the author reflects on themes Van Gogh returned to over and over again in his brief but intense journey from evangelist and pastor-in-training to painter of peasants, still lifes and growing things. As these poems reflect, Van Gogh's poetic imagination was best expressed in blossoming orchards, starry nights, sheaves of wheat, final harvests, and in his signature sunflowers--a metaphor for his own life, lifting petals to the sky, bending toward heaven.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSharon Fish Mooney teaches nursing research online for Regis University, Denver, Colorado, and Indiana Wesleyan. She won the inaugural Frost Farm Prize for metrical poetry. Her poems have appeared in various journals including \u003ci\u003eRUMINATE, The Lyric, The Evansville Review, String Poet, Christian Research Journal, First Things, Modern Age, The Lost Country\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCommon Threads\u003c\/i\u003e. She is poetry editor of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Christian Nursing\u003c\/i\u003e. Sharon lives in Ohio with her husband Scott, also a poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 106\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 11, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42117162598535,"sku":"9781498287494","price":33.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/7ea3d481f82d6aa570240065b34f6e6f.webp?v=1732522001","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/bending-toward-heaven-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}