{"product_id":"the-descent-poems-9781555974060","title":"The Descent: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Black's poems, in their measured grace, have a quiet intensity, animated by her passion for a clarity of understanding, in the art as in the life.\"-Stanley Kunitz \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eI have not handled the ordinary well\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd wandered into much time spent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTaking on the unfaithful, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlunder and flaw. -\u003c\/i\u003e-from \"Heaven, Which Is\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSophie Cabot Black's anticipated follow-up to her award-winning debut, \u003ci\u003eThe Misunderstanding of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, describes a restless spirit at the crossroads of love and damage, rapture and disenchantment, the mountain and the descent. The voices of these poems struggle through the hesitancies of doubt and loss to end at more than survival or witness; they achieve clarity by singing of the resiliencies of the known world, after paradise inevitably fails.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555974060\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.34w x 0.29d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Connecticut Book Awards - Winner","brand":"Sophie Cabot Black","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51730116870325,"sku":"9781555974060","price":11.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_a07fddc7-ea28-4895-a582-2625f0826aa0.jpg?v=1758004208","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-descent-poems-9781555974060","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}