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An \u003ci\u003eInvitation to Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e will inspire a fresh experience of poetry's pleasure and insight.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49989341085969,"sku":"CIN039305876XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51424150716689,"sku":"CIN039305876XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51822376976657,"sku":"CIN039305876XA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/039305876X.jpg?v=1751166151"},{"product_id":"invitation-to-poetry-book-maggie-dietz-9780393928389","title":"An Invitation to Poetry","description":"Bringing together 200 poems chosen by American readers, the anthology includes work by Sappho, Keats, Rilke, Whitman, and Dickinson, as well as by contemporary poets. The selections are introduced by people from all walks of life--a construction worker, a Supreme Court justice, a glass blower, a marine--each commenting on his or her connection to the poem.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e An Invitation to Poetry is accompanied by a free DVD featuring a video introduction by Robert Pinsky and 27 of the Favorite Poem Project segments as seen on PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50125141082385,"sku":"CIN0393928381G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50191925674257,"sku":"CIN0393928381VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0393928381.jpg?v=1751039231"},{"product_id":"perennial-fall-book-maggie-dietz-9780226148502","title":"Perennial Fall","description":"Prayer to a Suicide - Brother, when they laid you down I touched the break in lashes where the chicken pox had blown the lid up long ago, small brushes that stroked out your seeing hours. I wish the clouds would wash us down with unrepentant power, that pounding rain would soak in to your newly opened grave. Our mother's breath is broken, her C scar tingles after many years. Our father has not spoken. All night the faucet drives hard tears down into the silent house. They say it is beyond repair. Wherever you are, cry for us. At the heart of this unusually accomplished and affecting first book of poetry is the idea of the hinge - the point of connection, of openings and closings. Maggie Dietz situates herself in the laminal present, bringing together past and future, dream and waking, death and life. Formally exact, rigorous, and tough, these poems accept no easy answers or equations. Dietz creates a world alive with detail and populated with the everyday and strange: amusement-park horses named Virgil and Sisyphus, squirrels hanging over tree branches \"like fish.\" By turns humorous and pained, direct and mysterious, elegiac and elegant, the poems trace for us the journey and persistence of the spirit toward and through its \"perennial fall\" - both the season and the human condition. Cumulatively, the work moves toward a fragile transcendence, surrendering to difficulty, splendor, and strangeness.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50346819911953,"sku":"CIN0226148505G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226148505.jpg?v=1751164152"},{"product_id":"if-you-would-let-me-book-maggie-dietz-9781961897809","title":"If You Would Let Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf You Would Let Me\u003c\/i\u003e uses the myth of Persephone and Demeter to explore, in an utterly contemporary idiom, the hellish descents and unequivocal love of a mother and an adolescent child. The old story is reimagined in new terms--a present-day Persephone's cycles of psychic affliction giving rise to botched facial piercings, social media ghostings, and squalls of physical fury--and revoiced in poems that sing Demeter's rage, the depths of maternal grief, the seasons of erasure and renewal. In an electric transposition of classic lore onto modern descriptive modes, Dietz casts the imperiling pubescence and anxiety of middle school as canonically significant and dangerously chimerical: \"Persephone and her friends brought \/ Waxed paper cups of ice cream \/ To the meadow by the river,\" where \"Their laughter made ripples a heron \/ Mistook for alewives underwater\" while \"Under some of their shirts\" grew \"The first hiccups of puffy nipples.\" Throughout these teenage transformations and the distances they grow, Dietz remains as constant as a lodestar, offering unwavering light for her child to see by in order to return. \"You must know what I mean even if \/ You do not know you know: Child, \/\/ When you called my name I heard you \/ Though your cries could find no wind.\"  Formally meticulous and sonically intricate, these poems hear as much as they make themselves heard, harnessing ancient energies to create a picture of our recycled world--a story for our own times, one not only familiar but perennially, timelessly true.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53231014740241,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53231015067921,"sku":"NIN9781961897809","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781961897809.jpg?v=1773092740"},{"product_id":"that-kind-of-happy-book-maggie-dietz-9780226349398","title":"That Kind of Happy","description":"October Aubade   If I slept too long, forgive me.   A north wind quickened the window frames  so the room pitched like a moving train   and the pillow’s whiff of hickory  and shaving soap conjured your body   beside me. So I slept in the berth  as the train chuffed on, unburdened   by waking’s cold water, ignorant  of pain, estrangement, hunger and         the crucial fuel the boiler burned    to keep the minutes’ pistons churning   while I slept. Forgive me.  That Kind of Happy, the long-awaited second collection by award-winning poet Maggie Dietz, explores the sharp, profound tension between a disquieted inner life and quotidian experience. Central to the book are poems that take up two major life events: becoming a mother and losing a father within a short stretch of time. Here, at the intersection of joy and grief, of persistence and attrition, Dietz wrestles with the questions posed by such conflicting experiences, revealing a mind suspicious of quick fixes and dissatisfied with easy answers. 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