{"product_id":"o-body-of-bliss-paperback","title":"O Body of Bliss - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJanine Certo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection is so damn good I want to quote from every exploration inside every poem: food, family, love, tragedy, humor, religion and death, Certo's O Body of Bliss possesses an incisive immediacy, replete with surprises, that grabs and won't let go: \"Who wasn't shoved in a room by Boy Who Would Grow Up\/To Be Rapist, his hands at work while her friends picked the lock?\" Storyteller and lyric poet all in one, in \"Ode to the Airbnb,\" she asks: \"isn't it\/ sacred to be someone else, stepping over\/ the threshold into their skin, into the history\/ of closets, into the wall spaces between framed\/ photos bound in their hall light, their wanderings\/ and absences, their quilts and smells, the lives\/ of the hearth and the lock on the storage room.\" The range of her conjuring coupled with her linguistic gifts leave me awestruck.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e - Roger Weingarten\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 0.25 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 19, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42125506609287,"sku":"9781734398540","price":20.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/e92101769cb70ee87a608d94ba2b9575.webp?v=1732578113","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/o-body-of-bliss-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}