{"product_id":"a-little-middle-of-the-night-9781587298585","title":"A Little Middle of the Night","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe language of Molly Brodak's first full-length collection, \u003ci\u003eA Little Middle of the Night\u003c\/i\u003e, is ever shifting, brightly sonic, and disarming while exploring the margin between nature and art, darkness and beauty, dreams and awakenings. As echoed in one epigraph from Emerson, these poems capture \"the Exact and the Vast\" of consciousness in intense lyric verse with an angular and almost scientific sensitivity. Here is a speaker intent on discovery: \"Oh whole world, we choose \/ another.\" \u003cbr\u003e This award-winning collection simmers with wit as Brodak confronts tragedy, childhood losses, transcendent love, and the question of art itself. Tinged with a suffering--\"I was the littlest wastebasket. \/ I was my own church. Except-- \/ scared, scared\"--that rises above personal sorrow, her fierce and painterly poems redefine nature and art and what exists between: \"Lately, there is spangled shade in my space \/ and a cold apple orchard to tend in place of consciousness.\" As Reginald Shepherd said about the poems in Brodak's first collection, the chapbook \u003ci\u003eInstructions for a Painting\u003c\/i\u003e, her world is \"'small enough \/ to sing in all directions, ' and large enough to take us there.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781587298585\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 82\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.56w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/25\/2010 pg. 99\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Molly Brodak","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43140523098293,"sku":"9781587298585","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_3d004617-fb2f-49d3-811b-1b7295657693.jpg?v=1695700814","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-little-middle-of-the-night-9781587298585","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}