{"product_id":"magnified-paperback","title":"Magnified - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMinnie Bruce Pratt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOnce in a blue moon, a love like this comes along\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of love poems draws us into the sacred liminal space that surrounds death. With her beloved gravely ill, poet and activist Minnie Bruce Pratt turns to daily walks and writing to find a way to go on in a world where injustice brings so much loss and death. Each poem is a pocket lens \"to swivel out and magnify\" the beauty in \"the little glints, insignificant\" that catch her eye: \"The first flowers, smaller than this s.\" She also chronicles the quiet rooms of \"pain and the body's memory,\" bringing the reader carefully into moments that will be familiar to anyone who has suffered similar loss. Even as she asks, \"What's the use of poetry? Not one word comes back to talk me out of pain,\" the book delivers a vision of love that is boldly political and laced with a tumultuous hope that promises: \"Revolution is bigger than both of us, revolution is a science that infers the future presence of us.\" This lucid poetry is a testimony to the radical act of being present and offers this balm: that the generative power of love continues after death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOh Death\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSomeone sang, \u003ci\u003e Oh death! Oh death! Won't you\u003cbr\u003epass me over for another day? \u003c\/i\u003eSomeone said, \u003ci\u003e I\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003edreamed of you last night. I dreamed you\u003cbr\u003ewere telling me your whole life story.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhole. Whorled. Welkin, winkle, wrinkle.\u003cbr\u003eThe loop of time holds us all together.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe pile of laundry on the bed. You\u003cbr\u003efolding socks one inside the other. We\u003cbr\u003ehave had this day, and now this night.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe clothes are put away, and from the bed we see\u003cbr\u003ethe moon folding light into darkness, not death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMINNIE BRUCE PRATT (Syracuse, NY), an LGBTQ writer and activist originally from Alabama, is the author of nine books of poetry, creative nonfiction and political theory. She is a Managing Editor of Workers World\/Mundo Obrero newspaper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 02, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42162458394759,"sku":"9780819580061","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/6b5cd5b13021f4bbd7bf79f98da57a92.webp?v=1733289628","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/magnified-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}