{"product_id":"the-bella-vista-poems-9781961884328","title":"The Bella Vista: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eThe Bella Vista\u003c\/i\u003e Emma Ruth Rundle's sinuous lyric moves deftly between moods, syntax firing across synapses of image and sound, illuminating the pulverizing at-once-ness of daily living, loving, in the new world.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Kaveh Akbar, author of \u003ci\u003eMartyr!\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePilgrim Bell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"rip up this book, my love \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ei wrote it for you\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eThe Bella Vista\u003c\/i\u003e, Emma Ruth Rundle turns to language as the best and perhaps only tool suitable to express, in her words, \"the tenderness and brutality of romantic love.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten on the road and in the air between tour locations, the chronological, self-referential poems of \u003ci\u003eThe Bella Vista\u003c\/i\u003e follow a relationship from its enthralling genesis through its twisted convulsions and the devastation of its dissolution; culminating, eventually, with a sort of peace. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection is a concept album, an addiction memoir, a family tree, and a love letter all at once--to music, mistakes, and womanhood; to cross-country drives and other artists and the long road to finding oneself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Unnamed Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781961884328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 110","brand":"Emma Ruth Rundle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44916351467701,"sku":"9781961884328","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_5c90b66f-11d1-4d9b-9f2a-9c4bcab3b0b1.jpg?v=1734450052","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-bella-vista-poems-9781961884328","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}