{"product_id":"to-the-wren-collected-new-poems-9781948579018","title":"To the Wren: Collected \u0026 New Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis massive collection houses Mead's life's work: seven books spanning twenty-seven years. Follow chronologically through decades and become captivated by heartfelt muses on loss, madness, danger, grief, isolation, and self-identity. Her poems explore spaces we often try to ignore and finds a comfortable middleground. Mead candidly and openly weaves together pain and joy until it meshes into glimpses of humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mead ... wrote clean, spare, often elegiac lines\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I remember her calm voice, her kindness, the incisive clarity of her comments. And now, on the desk beside me, lies \u003cem\u003eTo the Wren: Collected and New Poems: 1991-2019 (2019)\u003c\/em\u003e, and although more work may well emerge from other files or rescued papers, no new Jane Mead poems will ever be written. Our imperfect compensation is the current volume, a beautifully designed compendium of finely crafted poems whose world is mortal, suffering, yet vividly alive.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Ned Balbo for \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterary Matters\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice James Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/20\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781948579018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 650\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 7.00w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/20\/2019\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jane Mead","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51844020994229,"sku":"9781948579018","price":25.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_da688e2f-c70e-43a9-ba12-a0dbbbd11f53.jpg?v=1759848807","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/to-the-wren-collected-new-poems-9781948579018","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}