{"product_id":"pray-me-stay-eager-9781938584688","title":"Pray Me Stay Eager","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"These are wonderful, witty, wise poems in love with language and singing the music of the world with all its pleasures and piquancies, its oddities and tragedies. Ellen Dor  Watson's vision is agile with quick shifts in direction and vivid juxtapositions. The poems in \u003ci\u003epray me stay eager\u003c\/i\u003e contain multitudes \" --Ellen Bass\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA dreamy voice turns dark and gritty as Ellen Dor  Watson interrogates personal purpose in the face of looming mortality. Poems sway comfortably, fluidly through associative discourse, radiating and championing love and adoration, indulging in simple pleasures with high magnitude and deep resonance. These poems are musical and sing in a different register for Watson in her fifth collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEllen Dor  Watson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four full-length collections of poems, most recently \u003ci\u003eDogged Hearts\u003c\/i\u003e from Tupelo Press. Watson's journal appearances include \u003ci\u003eAPR, Tin House, Orion, Field, Ploughshares\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. Among her honors are a Rona Jaffe Writers Award, fellowships to the MacDowell Colony and to Yaddo, and a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship. Watson serves as poetry and translation editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Massachusetts Review\u003c\/i\u003e and core faculty at Drew University's Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Poetry and Translation. She is the director of the Poetry Center and the Poetry Concentration at Smith College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice James Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/09\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781938584688\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/20\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2018 pg. 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/09\/2018\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ellen Dor\u0026#233; Watson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36671344771228,"sku":"9781938584688","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_4ebbc9ad-b4d7-4154-b767-863b0d4c8b58.jpg?v=1603925147","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/pray-me-stay-eager-9781938584688","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}