{"product_id":"true-mistakes-9781682262702","title":"True Mistakes","description":"\u003cp\u003e In her debut collection \u003ci\u003eTrue Mistakes\u003c\/i\u003e, the poet Lena Moses-Schmitt unleashes her powers of scrutiny on herself and on works of art to interrogate the essential nature of consciousness, identity, and time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e As the poet goes about daily life--taking long walks, painting at her desk, going to work, grappling with the deaths of friends, struggling with anxiety and depression--she ruminates on the boundaries between art and reality, grief and joy, living and imagining. For Moses-Schmitt, thought, like painting, is relentlessly high-stakes: \"I often think about things so hard \/ I kill them.\" And: \"Is it possible to paint myself so precisely \/ I disappear? Can I remember myself \/ so completely I'm erased?\" In the context of such ruminations, the poet's reflections on David Hockney's seminal pool paintings shimmer with sublimity and insight. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Working to turn \"mistakes\"--misperceptions, errors in life and in art--into sites of possibility and imagination instead of failure or confusion, Moses-Schmitt offers \"a truth for every reader,\" writes series editor Patricia Smith. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arkansas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/14\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781682262702\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Lena Moses-Schmitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45017829277877,"sku":"9781682262702","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_4ad61c40-618d-41ad-a796-e3afa6e3a8bb.jpg?v=1736833057","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/true-mistakes-9781682262702","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}