{"title":"Laurette Folk","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"end-of-aphrodite-book-laurette-folk-9781599541501","title":"The End of Aphrodite","description":"Fiction. Women's Studies. Italian American Studies. THE END OF APHRODITE explores the relationship between artist and muse, between the subjects of myths and the keepers of them. This is a beautifully rendered work narrated by a collection of characters whose faith is inspired by the beauty of art, the power of the ocean, the remnants of ancient religions, and the many mutations of love. When the unimaginable occurs and those beliefs are tested, Laurette Folk challenges us all to wonder who will be charged with remembering us? 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He reached for his spectacles on the night table and put them on. In the glass was something he had never seen before: it was a creature with its wings folded. And then, slowly, the wings unfurled, feather by feather, until he could see the full wingspan of the angel in the mirror. It had the face of a woman looking down at something, and when she raised her head, he saw that the face was that of his daughter, Carmen.\"Dante Alighieri Russo was a symbol of fortitude to his family-headstrong, honest, ethical, but at times unyielding and unsympathetic. With his death, his family learns to manifest that strength internally and in different ways: his daughter Nicoletta who once suffered from crippling anxiety realizes her psychic abilities; Dante's son Bardo, beleaguered by women who want him, suffers the fate of an unrequited love and learns what it is to be self-actualized; and his wife Florence, whose stoicism and taciturn manner drove her husband crazy, breaks her silence and recounts the bittersweet story of how she and Dante fell in love. \u003cem\u003eEleison\u003c\/em\u003e is a poignant family saga that delves into love and faith, redemption and reconciliation, mysticism and spirituality, and how we learn to accept our lives for what they are-then ultimately let them go.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52683381080337,"sku":"NLS9781599542270","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52752598401297,"sku":"NIN9781599542270","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53597157327121,"sku":"CIN1599542277G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781599542270.jpg?v=1762337351"},{"product_id":"totem-beasts-book-laurette-folk-9781945917059","title":"Totem Beasts","description":"The visible carries\/the invisible on its back in the Blake-ian dreamscapes of Laurette Folk's Totem Beasts. Her anxious musings, tiny buds of hope, and wending narratives-of paternal specters, IVF turmoil, and undomesticated femininity-tear through this notable debut collection. Jennifer Jean, The Fool In Totem Beasts, Folks places the reader in the bed, womb, at the family dining table stained with olive oil, in the waters off Gloucester. And we are left breathless, speechless with this fine poet's fearless language that tackles fertility, family, death, religion, love, and God. Folk takes us through a portal, illumed where loss is palpable, just barely hidden, always shifting its shape: sometimes a father, or the ancestors, or perhaps, the unborn. These are dream-like, sensual poems spoken by a woman still dripping fresh with longing and need. Laurette Folk's poems demand that we listen to her new language\/we must now learn to speak. Jennifer Martelli, The Uncanny Valley In this extraordinary collection, Laurette Folk weaves mythical and tangible elements in poems that bless the magnificence of science, faith, history and the natural world. These are poems of great attention and possibility, pulling what is six decibels below our audible range into the light. And once the unseen has risen, she skillfully unwraps it in a context that is grounded in our shared human experiences of loss, death, conception and love. In doing so, with masterful arrangement, she offers more than symbols-she invites the reader to join her in its creation. As she writes in My Grandfather, the Christ, you took the word in my hand\/multiplied it one hundred fold\/and filled the room with a new language\/we must now learn to speak. In speaking, Folk shows us how much we are tethered to our beliefs and ghosts, but also illumined and boundless. Megan Merchant, Gravel Ghosts","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53493873967377,"sku":"NIN9781945917059","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781945917059.jpg?v=1777809586"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-laurette-folk.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}