{"title":"Emily Warn","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"shadow-architect-book-emily-warn-9781556592775","title":"Shadow Architect","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Emily Warn is one tough poet. . . . She not only takes on God but also juggles the hot coals of memory and wrestles her way to an honest spiritual life.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Warn has created a serious meditation on Jewish prayer and cosmogony, in lyrical prose and in accessible verse, a book that belongs not only on poetry shelves, but amid other Judaica and books of prose and verse on religious themes.\" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"...a sincere exploration of spirituality and the line between the abstract and the concrete...\" --\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow are words made, and how do they derive power? These are the questions at the core of Emily Warn's \u003ci\u003eShadow Architect\u003c\/i\u003e, organized around the twenty-two-letter Hebrew alphabet. Mystics have seen that alphabet as a key to divine intent, since God brought the world into being through speech. But Warn takes a poet's view rather than a theologian's: she sees the alphabet's power to reveal the nature of invention, and the limits of language and knowledge. \u003ci\u003eShadow Architect\u003c\/i\u003e channels this power not only through word but through image: each poem begins with an illumination of a Hebrew letter. Within the set boundaries of this alphabet, Warn generates a rich polyphony, uniting her own distinctly American poetics with the language of sacred texts and commentaries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe result is an alluring, postmodernist take on how language means: an architecture not only of shadows, but of \"correspondences, analogies, clues, \/ binaries, metaphors, keys.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo invent the alef-beit,\u003cbr\u003e decipher the grammar of crows,\u003cbr\u003e read a tangle of bare branches\u003cbr\u003e with vowels of the last leaves\u003cbr\u003e scrawling their jittery speech\u003cbr\u003e on the sky's pale page.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Warn\u003c\/b\u003e, author of two previous books of poetry, lives in Seattle and Chicago, where she is the editor of the Poetry Foundation's website.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49789520052497,"sku":"CIN1556592779G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51038054678801,"sku":"NIN9781556592775","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52684145393937,"sku":"NLS9781556592775","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1556592779.jpg?v=1750958504"},{"product_id":"leaf-path-book-emily-warn-9780914742616","title":"The Leaf Path","description":"Poetry. Emily Warn is a poet of kinship and harmony. And she often uses narrative to establish surprising relationships. Warn's poems define a sensibility that is fully in focus, one that expresses a reverence for humanity and nature as two participants in a greater whole. Eschewing unnecessary artifice and the latest literary fads, she writes poems, it seems, only from necessity, from great faith in a possible world. In selecting THE LEAF PATH for the 1981 King County Arts Commission Publication Project, Susan Griffin wrote: Emily Warn's poetry is feeling, moving, dealing with the powerful and deepest part of being, yet delicately, even precisely crafted. This is a new voice we will all be blessed for hearing.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50367213404433,"sku":"CIN0914742612G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51009524760849,"sku":"NIN9780914742616","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52684604047633,"sku":"NLS9780914742616","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0914742612.jpg?v=1751298317"},{"product_id":"novice-insomniac-book-emily-warn-9781556591129","title":"The Novice Insomniac","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50390097723665,"sku":"CIN1556591128G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52685233881361,"sku":"NLS9781556591129","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1556591128.jpg?v=1750991062"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-emily-warn.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}