{"product_id":"winter-at-a-summer-house-paperback","title":"Winter at a Summer House - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Beth Hines\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in Mary Beth Hines's first collection, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinter at a Summer House, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e strike a wonderful balance between narratives of everyday experience and a pristine, pure poetic imagination. Always rhythmically diverse, most of the time mellifluous, and often intense, Hines's poetry vividly paints the life of a modern self-made woman, with her worries and obligations, her family, and her dreams. In response to the heroine's world, this poetry, never static, vibrates with all sorts of emotions: love, friendship, youthful infatuations, amorousness, jealousy, altruism. As a result, the book gives its reader all the pleasures of a novel-and of lyric novelty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKatia Kapovich, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eGogol in Rome\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eCossacks and Bandits\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Beth Hines sings to us out of the staircases, back yards, and swimming pools of a life sumptuously lived, a world rife with joys and enticements, with girlhood wish and adulthood tryst. Each song lifts on the updrafts of a language passionately breathed. The poems are arrayed with such stunning craft that the art dissolves into the narrative. One forgets that one is reading and imagines that one is reliving this life. \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinter at a Summer House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is, in the words of one of the poems, a \"gift to spark remembrance,\" as if the memories had become our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTom Daley, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eHouse You Cannot Reach\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom birth\/death and first\/last words-- the poems in Mary Beth Hines's collection, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinter at a Summer House, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e entice us into the arc of a woman's life, and tip us into her fall from innocence into experience. The poems are dares, flirting with risk, and holding bliss and danger in a tactile bond of \"teeth and ice, breath and coyotes.\" They give us what we want from poetry: to be bundled up \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e awakened; to be reminded before the storm that the storm \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e coming. We must hold hands and walk under the shape-shifting sky of \"old faces--familiar, before they split\/and spill, erase us.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKelly DuMar, author of\u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003egirl in tree bark, Tree of the Apple, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003eAll These Cures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 102\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.24 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 04, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42098088968327,"sku":"9781639800452","price":25.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/48aa698e698ecdf0f764185dc7c0ac25.webp?v=1732359623","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/winter-at-a-summer-house-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}