{"product_id":"crow-work-poems-9781571314543","title":"Crow-Work: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Dazzlingly alert.\" --MARY SZYBIST\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What is a song but a snare to capture the moment?\" This central question drives \u003cem\u003eCrow-Work\u003c\/em\u003e, Eric Pankey's ekphrastic exploration of the moment where emotion and energy flood a work of art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough subjects as diverse as Brueghel's \u003cem\u003eProcession to Calvary\u003c\/em\u003e, Anish Kapoor's \u003cem\u003eHealing of Saint Thomas\u003c\/em\u003e, Caravaggio's series of severed heads, and James Turrell's experimentation with light and color, the author travels to an impossible past, despite being firmly rooted in the present, to seek out \"the songbird in every thorn thicket\" of the artist's work. Short bursts of lyrical beauty burn away \"like coils of incense ash\"; bodies in the light of a cave flicker, coalesce, and disappear. By capturing the ephemeral beauty of life in these poems, \u003cem\u003eCrow-Work\u003c\/em\u003e seeks not only to explain great art, but also to embody it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/20\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571314543\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.55h x 5.49w x 0.27d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2014\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Eric Pankey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51798410461365,"sku":"9781571314543","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_822d97f1-9663-403c-8dde-cad28967aabd.jpg?v=1758638445","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/crow-work-poems-9781571314543","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}