{"product_id":"like-water-in-the-palm-of-my-hand-paperback","title":"Like Water in the Palm of My Hand - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLois Roma-Deeley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems of Lois Roma-Deeley's latest book are like lucid dreams, at once as vivid, joyous, and as painful as life itself. And they are more. In their faithful adherence to the truth of the encountered world-whether home-life, street-life, cancer ward, or in witness to the sublime natural wonders of Sedona or Zion-Roma-Deeley's poems seek to pitch imagination beyond itself to something more like divination. These are poems that show us \"how hard it is to be a human being,\" but which also \"celebrate the moment of possibility.\" Like love itself, to use the poet's words, they \"leave us with a deep, sweet scar.\" \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eLike Water in the Palm of My Hand\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis a richly moving and vibrantly envisioned collection.\u003cbr\u003e-Daniel Tobin, author of 8 poetry collections, including \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlood Labors, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003enamed 2018 Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAgainst the backdrop of the Arizona desert, Lois Roma-Deeley's powerful poems unfold, immersing the reader in a world of loneliness and love, affliction and redemption. From the bravado of a cancer patient to the agony of St. Julia's crucifixion, from the thrill of discovering James Baldwin to the awkwardness of being the only white woman in the room, from a healing pilgrimage to San Xavier's Mission to a vigil in a brother's hospital room, Roma-Deeley takes the reader to challenging spaces and places where we discover we're \"made for more and yet just for this\"-this brokenness, this suffering, this sad and saving beauty.\u003cbr\u003e-Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndalusian Hours: Poems from the Porch of Flannery O'Connor\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove in the Time of Coronavirus: A Pandemic Pilgrimage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRoma-Deeley's poems give palpable form to intangible powers that may be even more potent for their being ephemeral. Here also are frozen moments \"tumbling against each other.\" Here, too, questions stretch across time. Lois Roma-Deeley aims high and succeeds: \"I'm lifting you out of the here and now\/and opening the door to the other side\/of how good life is supposed to be.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Margaret Rozga, author of\u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew and Selected Poems: Holding My Selves Together, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e former Wisconsin Poet Laureate \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.21 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 30, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42126522482823,"sku":"9781639801107","price":25.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/0b1f02eb71d91de2d2ee98e390d7122b.webp?v=1732582840","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/like-water-in-the-palm-of-my-hand-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}