{"product_id":"painkiller-poems-written-2000-2006-9781882688401","title":"Painkiller: Poems Written 2000-2006","description":"\u003ci\u003ePainkiller \u003c\/i\u003eis the final book in a trilogy of collections that started with \u003ci\u003eThe Weather That Kills\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), followed by \u003ci\u003eFemme du Monde\u003c\/i\u003e (Tia Chucha, 1996). Of these three collections, the poems in \u003ci\u003ePainkiller \u003c\/i\u003eare the most emotional and intimate, and yet they are also the most universal as they look at the consequences of love found and lost; passions unleashed; terror from human conduct and the awesome power of natural disaster. While this is a collection that responds in part to 9-11, many poems were written prior to that event, to the injury to the city and our psychic well-being. Those portents and that injury set the collection's tone. Painkiller explores one poet's vision of the city, her friends, her lover, her losses and connects those individual perceptions to a suffering world in turmoil. In the poem \"In Like Paradise\/Out Like the Blues\", a poem from \u003ci\u003eThe Weather That Kills\u003c\/i\u003e, Patricia Spears Jones wrote: \"Each of turns to the hunger of stars\/and wipes the crumbs from our mouths.\" \u003ci\u003ePainkiller \u003c\/i\u003eis about that feast.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tia Chucha\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781882688401\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.20d","brand":"Patricia Spears Jones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43084252446901,"sku":"9781882688401","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_d078673b-8fa1-4889-acc9-02b78d7d77c6.jpg?v=1692113090","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/painkiller-poems-written-2000-2006-9781882688401","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}