{"product_id":"persephone-heads-for-the-gate-9781878851260","title":"Persephone Heads for the Gate","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe tender attention with which Merrill Douglas holds the things of this world is breathtaking: \"small brown birds\/going \u003ci\u003echink, chink\u003c\/i\u003e like coins in the ivy,\" \"sun licks billows\/of garlicky lamb smoke\/that roll above street fair earrings,\" a toasted marshmallow that \"flakes on my tongue with the taste of charred news,\" or \"the sound my grown body releases\/now when I unfasten my bra.\" It is a deep and moving pleasure to spend time in the world of these poems, poems that suggest, no, \u003ci\u003einsist\u003c\/i\u003e that to live is to \"immerse your face in mud and then arise...,\" to \"pinch together thumb and index finger to tweeze\/unending filaments of joy from the air....\" --\u003cb\u003eMarilyn McCabe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Silverfish Review Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781878851260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 6.19w x 0.25d","brand":"Merrill Douglas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52147080069301,"sku":"9781878851260","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_58daafdf-c7e6-4e2a-bf89-872e33df604b.jpg?v=1767678766","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/persephone-heads-for-the-gate-9781878851260","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}