{"product_id":"the-needles-eye-passing-through-youth-9781555977566","title":"The Needle's Eye: Passing Through Youth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA meditation on time, violence, and chance by \"one of America's most dazzling poets\" (\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFanny Howe's \u003ci\u003eThe Needle's Eye: Passing through Youth \u003c\/i\u003eis a sequence of essays, short tales, and lyrics that are intertwined by an inner visual logic. The book contains filmic images that subvert the usual narrative chronology; it is focused on the theme of youth, doomed or saved. A fourteenth-century folktale of two boys who set out to find happiness, the story of Francis and Clare with their revolutionary visions, the Tsarnaev brothers of Boston, the poet George Oppen and the philosopher Simone Weil, two strangers who loved but remain strange, and the wild-child Brigid of Ireland: all these emerge \"from multiple directions, but always finally from the eye at the end.\" As the philosopher Richard Kearney writes, \"Howe's ruminations and aesthetics are those of the fragmentary, but are unified by world thinkers like Arendt, Weil, Agamben, and Yeats.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Needle's Eye\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant and deeply felt exploration of faith and terror, coincidence and perception, by a literary artist of profound moral intelligence, \"recognized as one of the country's least compromising yet most readable experimentalist writers\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\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 11\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555977566\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/0001\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/26\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2016 pg. 10\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fanny Howe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51445581414581,"sku":"9781555977566","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_1cbf122a-650f-49ae-bd8c-8a1dcefe884e.jpg?v=1753799076","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-needles-eye-passing-through-youth-9781555977566","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}