{"product_id":"trying-to-speak-9780873388474","title":"Trying to Speak","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of the 2004 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The voice [in Anele Rubin's poems] is so new, and yet the movement is so artful, subtle, and modest--there are never any theatrics in these poems. They never yowl, Pay attention to me! . . . Rubin is on the same wave-length with Tomas Tranströmer and Yehuda Amichai. . . . The emotional range of her poems, like theirs, is enormous, as is the range of locales, many of which I know well, and yet in \u003cem\u003eTrying to Speak\u003c\/em\u003e, they appear with a clarity that had eluded me.\"\u003cem\u003e-- Philip Levine, Judge\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Anele Rubin's poems illuminate an astonishing range of emotional experience. Visual, tactile, simple and complex, her words lure you from poem to poem--sometimes exquisite, sometimes austere, always original.\"\u003cem\u003e-- Ruth Stone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is a powerful and beautifully lyrical book of great wisdom, whose theme is emotional resurrection.\"\u003cem\u003e-- Toi Derricotte\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kent State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780873388474\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 6.30w x 0.26d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e IndieFab awards - Second Place","brand":"Rubin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52491319541941,"sku":"9780873388474","price":12.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_e7ed8e27-507d-4f11-83f9-8ee7400f2658.jpg?v=1777995726","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/trying-to-speak-9780873388474","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}