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Fans of Dombrowski's previous collection, By Cold Water (which was noted as a contemporary poetry bestseller by the Poetry Foundation in 2009), along with other poets and poetry lovers will appreciate the attention to detail and the imaginative intensity of the poems in Earth Again.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50197202993425,"sku":"CIN0814337295G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52817302716689,"sku":"CIN0814337295VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0814337295.jpg?v=1763473241"},{"product_id":"mortality-with-friends-book-fleda-brown-9780814348741","title":"Mortality, with Friends","description":"Mortality, With Friends is a collection of lyrical essays from Fleda Brown, a writer and caretaker, of her father and sometimes her husband, who lives with the nagging uneasiness that her cancer could return. 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All ten stories in Unblinking take place in or circle back to Detroit and portray both the beauty and grit of the city and its inhabitants. In \"\"Up in the Air,\"\" a blues musician cherishes his memory of falling from a tree - \"\"the utter sweetness of falling, of floating, almost still\"\" - even though his downward plunge has left him seriously disabled. The narrator of \"\"In the White Man's House,\"\" recalls a high school basketball game, torn by racial division, and the distress of his teenaged friend who strove to be \"\"blacker.\"\" In \"\"Losing It,\"\" a disgruntled angel tries to help a nurse control his outbursts of comic and fruitless anger. And in \"\"Marching,\"\" an old white man, who now has great difficulty walking, remembers marching fifty miles with Martin Luther King Jr. Despite the hardships they experience, the characters in the collection find pleasure and solace in what this lovely planet has to offer. 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All these characteristics can be found in this book, and there is something else, something extraordinary: at an age where most poets are content to roll out an imagined posterity, he's decided to push and refine the art, to see out the day and live it fully, because art and life settle for no less.\"\" The first section of Saint Peter and the Goldfinch reflects on the author's personal history, with poems like \"\"Feeding the Pup in the Early Morning\"\" and \"\"Some of What Was Left After Therapy.\"\" The second section continues with meditations on varied events and persons and includes poems such as \"\"The Last Days of Sam Snead\"\" and \"\"Coffee Talks with Con Hilberry.\"\" The third attends primarily to the mystery of love and what one loves and contains the poems \"\"The Inevitable Sorrow of Potatoes\"\" and \"\"Suite for the Long Married.\"\" The fourth and final section meditates primarily on the imagined in poems like \"\"Over in That Corner, the Puppets\"\" and \"\"Meditation on a Photograph of a Man Jumping a Puddle in the Rain.\"\"  Saint Peter and the Goldfinch is the work of a talented and seasoned poet, one whose work comes out of the \"\"plainspoken\"\" tradition-the kind of poetry that, as Thomas Lynch puts it, \"\"has to deliver the goods, has to say something about life, something clear and discernible, or it has little to offer.\"\" Readers of poetry who enjoy wrestling with life's big questions will appreciate the space that Ridl allows for these ruminations.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50361862717713,"sku":"CIN0814346456VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0814346456.jpg?v=1763478572"},{"product_id":"i-have-the-answer-book-kelly-fordon-9780814347522","title":"I Have the Answer","description":"If you thought the suburbs were boring, think again. 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