{"product_id":"a-lucent-fire-new-and-selected-poems-9781935210696","title":"A Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eVibrant with the intensity of blues singers.--\u003ci\u003eFeminist Bookstore News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatricia Spears Jones is cosmopolitan blues goddess alive on the wind stream of transnational homemade intimate gossip. Her poems are a highly effective antidote to living in a country where caring seems to have been placed on the Endangered Activities list.--David Rivard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatricia Spears Jones reminds me of those wisecracking, foolproof women in the old films she so lovingly dissects--the ones whose deadsure, replenishing humor and never-fail good sense causes the audience to sit up and clap.--Cyrus Cassells\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe has given us a world where music and brains are allowed to co-exist with instinct, where the lyric and the literal may dwell without eyeing the other with suspicion.--Cornelius Eady\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom The Perfect Lipstick: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt is why I appreciate my favorite shade of lipstick: \u003cbr\u003eSherry Velour.\u003cbr\u003eSounds like the name of a drag queen from the early seventies.\u003cbr\u003eOne of those strapping Black men who had enough of playing macho, \u003cbr\u003eput their feet in five-inch heels and made saints of Dinah Washington, \u003cbr\u003eRita Hayworth and a very young Nina Simone.\u003cbr\u003eSo, on goes this lipstick. Pretty for parties.\u003cbr\u003eFatal for festivals.\u003cbr\u003eSherry Velour and her hot discoveries: \u003cbr\u003elight above the fog, \u003cbr\u003ea toy ship.\u003cbr\u003eBlack men in sequined dresses and the click of new words\u003cbr\u003ein the new world where the most dangerous of dreams\u003cbr\u003ecome true.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatricia Spears Jones \u003c\/b\u003ewas named by Essence.com as one of its 40 Poets  They] Love in 2010.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e White Pine Press (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/10\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781935210696\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/02\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patricia Spears Jones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42769861443765,"sku":"9781935210696","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_695b8f4c-7623-49bc-9761-4d0452cfc86b.jpg?v=1678839257","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-lucent-fire-new-and-selected-poems-9781935210696","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}