{"product_id":"life-drawing-9781936657681","title":"Life Drawing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The poems in \u003cem\u003eLife Drawing\u003c\/em\u003e come from a painterly perspective that loves the colors and textures of life. Germain's sensibility is generous: 'I rummage things of childhood\/ to find lost blessings' and 'What is given astonishes.' A central tension of the book is the way she grapples with life's hard paradoxes: truth versus embellishing, salt versus sugar, blood and bone versus soul. It's a poetry that embraces the ordinary and sees art as a way to both praise, and make sense of, the world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Joseph Powell, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Slow Subtraction: ALS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eLife Drawing\u003c\/em\u003e, Carmen Germain captures moments with a painter's eye and an appetite avid for delight: 'dawn blooming vermilion, ' unripe blackberries 'green as Chinese \/ porcelain, ' a moon that rises 'like a cabbage.' In 'The Fixed Stars, ' van Gogh works 'with nothing in his belly but milk \/ and dry bread.' Everywhere, Germain offers us the rewards of such devotion, as in 'Before Time': 'my hand in a woman's handprint \/ from the eleventh century, my fingerbones \/ in place of hers.'\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Bethany Reid, author of\u003cem\u003e Sparrow\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Moonpath Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781936657681\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d","brand":"Carmen Germain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42325096038581,"sku":"9781936657681","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_96104f6b-2c68-41c7-a8fa-4013bb28bf24.jpg?v=1660015870","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/life-drawing-9781936657681","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}