{"product_id":"the-marble-bed-9781885983831","title":"The Marble Bed","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The Marble Bed\u003c\/i\u003e is a vision; it is an ode to life.\"--Rowan Ricardo Phillips\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Each poem in \u003ci\u003eThe Marble Bed\u003c\/i\u003e journeys far, wandering the territory of love's psyche.\"--Yusef Komunyakaa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the permanent poets of her generation.\"--Harold Bloom\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrace Schulman rises to new heights in these poems of lament and praise. In \u003ci\u003eThe Marble Bed\u003c\/i\u003e, a couple dances on a shore that is at once a shining turf and a graveyard of sea toss, of cracked shells, a skull-like carapace, and emerald weed. Here things sparkle with newness: an orchid come alive when rescued from a trash bin; the new year hidden in an egret's wing; Coltrane's ecstatic flight; a seductive, come-hither angel; a meteor's arc; a rainbow's painted ribbons; a glacial rock that glowers in moonlight. Even the tomb sculptures in an Italian cemetery sparkle with vitality. Schulman, grieving for her late husband, believes passionately in the power of art to redeem human transience. Her faith in art enables her to move from mourning to joyful wonder of existence as she meditates on an injured world and concludes: \"Because I cannot lose the injured world \/ without losing the world, \/ I'll have to praise it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Turtle Point Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/27\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781885983831\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Grace Schulman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36669965598876,"sku":"9781885983831","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_4c966044-393d-4e02-82aa-cfb965a22a92.jpg?v=1603921502","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-marble-bed-9781885983831","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}