{"product_id":"false-spring-poems-paperback","title":"False Spring: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGloria Monaghan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing in the footprints of Amy Clampitt and Robert Creeley - two of our greatest contemporary naturalist poets - Gloria Monaghan offers this exquisite collection. But, like all other prints left on a nature trail, her footprints are distinctly her own - whether tender, rhapsodic, wistful or sardonic. This trail begins in a cemetery where flowers are left to flourish in the water of tears. It then moves naturally to memories of the poet's father, siblings, a former love, and her children. In all of these poems - and in the others offered here - the words stun in their Dickinsonian simplicity and beauty. \"The smell of my daughter's hair breaks my heart.\"Even when she is describing a grim crime scene (\"The police search the reeds and the water ... in the hope of finding a body\"), she returns and finds\/offers solace in the natural world (\"Did your body smell like an ocean?\").As befits good poetry, each poem here jars, prods, provokes, disturbs - even in a love poem - often with a sly sense of humor (\"Your smell escapes me\") or bitter regret (\"The daylight \/ never ceases to astonish \/ ... as if that's all we need\").The richly textured images leave the reader glad to have taken the trek. It is a journey to which the lucky reader will return time and again, each time discovering new growth. - Neil Silberblatt, Founder\/Director, Voices of Poetry; Author, Past Imperfect (Nixes Mate Books, 2018), nominated for Mass. Book Award in Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 76\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.18 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 18, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46398093230215,"sku":"9781950437078","price":26.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/RAWQr9kYWJ9781950437078.webp?v=1793569835","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/false-spring-poems-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}