{"product_id":"the-book-of-hours-9781556593857","title":"The Book of Hours","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Marianne Boruch's work has the wonderful, commanding power of true attention.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" H]er patience, her willingness to wait for the film of familiarity to slip, allows her to see what is there with a jeweler's sense of facet and flaw.\"--\u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEndearingly strange, unsentimental, and uniquely structured, in true Rilkean fashion \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Hours\u003c\/i\u003e questions the meaning and significance of everything from the flaws of human interaction to perfect posture. Unrelenting honesty and exacting description are coupled with the trials of a dying mother, saint shadows, birds, and \"shit drying to chalk.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy mother's body to wires, to tubes\u003cbr\u003eand their liquid, days she turned toward me\u003cbr\u003eor away, winter but so much sun\u003cbr\u003efrom car to door. I followed it past nurses \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eat their station talking movies, who's good\u003cbr\u003ein one and not the other. Gown tied\u003cbr\u003eat the back and neck, she slept beside\u003cbr\u003ea window. I wedged my chair there, reading, \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003elooking up, reading, --who knows what\u003cbr\u003eI read--her legs bruised, thin, arms battered\u003cbr\u003eby the doctor's needle. Her face. Can I\u003cbr\u003esay this plainly now? There was light \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eas she grew less. She drifted to it.\u003cbr\u003eI'm not hungry, not religious, I'm in a spot, \u003cbr\u003eshe told me one afternoon then\u003cbr\u003eclosed her eyes to that radiance again.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarianne Boruch\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in Chicago and earned a masters degree from the University of Massachusetts. She teaches at Purdue University and at Warren Wilson College. She lives in West Lafayette, Indiana.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/08\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556593857\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 87\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.30h x 5.40w x 0.40d","brand":"Marianne Boruch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38014347870389,"sku":"9781556593857","price":12.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_84154100-b819-425f-abba-eb7b562be912.jpg?v=1609147229","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-book-of-hours-9781556593857","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}