{"product_id":"emily-dickinsons-lexicon-poems-9781953252883","title":"Emily Dickinson's Lexicon: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this debut collection, Katie Lehman pays tribute to Emily Dickinson, with homage to the nineteenth-century American poet's lexicon of fierce vulnerability. Some poems quote Dickinson verbatim. Others channel Dickinson's radiant spirit in lyric narratives that reflect Lehman's own journey through a life lived close to the earth. We learn about Benedictine nuns tending the Victorian walled garden and farm at Kylemore Abbey on the west coast of Ireland, a newborn calf on a Mennonite dairy farm in Northern Indiana, the poet's coming-of-age among horses in Ohio, and school picture day during the Covid pandemic with her young son. Like Dickinson's, Lehman's poems pose a precise questioning of suffering and death through an inherent lens of light and hope. In the end, Lehman creates an emotional lexicon of her own that urges us not merely to enter but to bask in the sheer exuberance of language and find transport.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSAMPLE: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMonarch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCyclical and sparse, her eyelid-thin wings approach \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand disapproach among the grasses. Unassuming, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshe only covets what she knows: a single worn reed \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof herself, dark covert, uncoaxable as the worm \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshe once was. Before the white-spotted wings, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebefore the stained-glass veins. Idling brown earth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eat close measure. Closer at length, but she knows\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecloseness is not her answer. If it is a loveliness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshe feels or a kind of loneliness, only the husbandry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof tears will make her radiance known. How her\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecautious love perplexes the moth who darts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eunblinkingly into the porch light. Filamental, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshe is compatible to late dusk or perceivable grief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdmonish, and she's gone-yet I conspire she longs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor earth's untiring clasp, longs even, all preconceptions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eremoved-to lay her orange and black chivalry down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e DOS Madres Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/29\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781953252883\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 6.20w x 0.50d","brand":"Katie Lehman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45000446116021,"sku":"9781953252883","price":17.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_bed48713-ef9c-443d-84d3-5239f3022ef4.jpg?v=1736264821","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/emily-dickinsons-lexicon-poems-9781953252883","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}