{"product_id":"pharaoh-pharaoh-paperback","title":"Pharaoh, Pharaoh - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eClaudia Emerson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by the winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, \u003ci\u003e Pharaoh, Pharaoh \u003c\/i\u003eis a meditation on time, memory, inheritance, and the irony of loss--loss of one's land, of one's past, of love itself. With senses keenly attuned to every nuance of light and landscape, Claudia Emerson Andrews invests her lines with a scriptural fire. She captures equally and with apparent effortlessness the bewilderment of the culturally bereft in the \"stuttered eloquence\" of an auctioneer and the evanescence of appearances in the image of a dying firefly \"coughing up light.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this postlapsarian pastoral of the modern Southeast, Andrews summons a cast of characters bound to times and places of desolation, yet unable to leave because it is that very desolation--the plagues, the scourges, the losses and heartbreak--that has defined them. Their collective cry of exultant despair is compressed in the astonishing final lines of \"Plagues\" \"Pharaoh, Pharaoh, as if there were something keeping us, as if we could be let go.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAndrews brings to these poems a vision so clear, so miraculously right, that the pages themselves seem suffused with the scents of sunlight and new-mown hay. \u003ci\u003ePharaoh, Pharaoh \u003c\/i\u003eis a lovely, spellbinding reminder of what we discard, what we keep--and why.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaudia Emerson Andrews' poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003ePloughshares, Poetry, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eGeorgia Review, TriQuarterly, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eSouthern Review, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNew England Review, \u003c\/i\u003eamong other publications. She was awarded an NEA fellowship in 1994 and previously served as poetry editor of the Greensboro Review. She lives in Chatham, Virginia, where she is the academic dean at Chatham Hall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 8.95 x 5.48 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42131058327687,"sku":"9780807121597","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/dd6e33db1cb3111c6a34ba18d084864c.webp?v=1732615974","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/pharaoh-pharaoh-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}