{"product_id":"can-you-smell-the-rain-9781943491216","title":"Can You Smell the Rain?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCan You Smell the Rain?, \u003c\/em\u003e Patricia Cleary Miller's new collection of poetry, \u003cbr\u003e poses the old theatrical question, \u003cem\u003eWho wants what, and why can't\u003cbr\u003e they have it?\u003c\/em\u003e Her confused and deluded characters take themselves\u003cbr\u003e seriously as they yearn for love. With wit and gently biting satire, \u003cbr\u003e the poet presents their struggles. Beware: a snicker at these characters\u003cbr\u003e is a snicker at yourself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs poet H. L. Hix writes in his foreword to the collection, \"William Carlos Williams was onto something with his aphorism, \"No ideas but in things,\" but Patricia Cleary Miller's \u003cem\u003eCan You Smell the Rain? \u003c\/em\u003egoes Williams one better. Miller doesn't have to say what her poems prove: No moments but in things, no memories, no lives, no loves. These are poems (or, I would say, this is a lyric memoir) lush with vivid and vivifying particular.\" Poet Mia Leonin, in her advance praise for the book, writes, \"Miller's rapturous attention to detail and her deft sense of story conjure a poetic genealogy, swirling and swooning with ancestors, lovers, and earthly delights.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kans\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781943491216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.29d","brand":"Patricia Cleary Miller","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36671857197212,"sku":"9781943491216","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_0d0c5dba-0bab-4556-9b6a-33dceab0b532.jpg?v=1603926399","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/can-you-smell-the-rain-9781943491216","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}