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For fans of Janzen or poetry in general, reading these will be a rich, rewarding experience.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49801383706897,"sku":"CIN1561481777G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51481638371601,"sku":"CIN1561481777VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51693158793489,"sku":"CIN1561481777A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1561481777.jpg?v=1750799196"},{"product_id":"piano-in-the-vineyard-book-jean-janzen-9781561484294","title":"Piano in the Vineyard","description":"\u003cbr\u003e Celebrated poet, Jean Janzen, writes mighty poems, finding those heart-stopping human moments for which there is no adequate language. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Once again, Jean Janzen writes mighty poems, finding those heart-stopping human moments for which there is no adequate language. Janzen, a National Endowment for the Arts winner, begins this newest collection of poetry with Wailing in the Shower and these arresting stanzas: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter the elation of giving birth, our new daughter fed and sleeping, I stand under the warm water and begin on the high notes-- Madame Butterfly's ecstasy, One fine day in May, the harmony sliding over my body. After the loss of his bride, our friend turns on the guestroom shower and begins his long wailing. It echoes through the house, flows down the stairway, his baritone cries rising and falling. Over and over, the full octaves. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e And she goes on to mark the full-throated human experience, placing her 42 poems into these sections: Broken Places, The Garden, Carving the Hollow, and, finally, Piano in the Vineyard. In every poem Janzen is utterly conscious of the unspeakable wonder and terror of being alive. 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These poems are like that mirror. To their reflecting surface clings a distillation of clarity and wisdom, precious to those who look into the glass. --\u003ci\u003eRhoda Janzen, Author\u003c\/i\u003e, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e Mennonite Meets Mr. Right \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean Janzen addresses her treasured topics--desire, mystery, language, family and heritage, music, embodied spirituality--with confidence and grace. 'Write it, the hunger and the song, ' says one poem. And she does, brilliantly. Janzen's vision has never been clearer; her words have never confessed more truth. This book took over 80 years to write, and its final, passionate message is 'mercy, ' a resounding 'Yes.' \u003ci\u003e --Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Author, \u003c\/i\u003ePoetry in America\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 'Winter Child' Jean Janzen remembers 'a kind of ecstasy' from a wintry afternoon, her 'small figure falling again and again \/ to make a host of angels in my own backyard.' Steeped as they are in loss and grief, these poems may hardly seem angelic--except in their glimmering music, their wintry knowledge, and their generous wisdom. \u003ci\u003eWhat the Body Knows\u003c\/i\u003e is a book to savor and to treasure. \u003ci\u003e--Jeff Gundy, Author of Songs\u003c\/i\u003e from an Empty Cage \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e Somewhere Near Defiance \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Author: \u003c\/b\u003eJean Janzen, a poet living in Fresno, California, is the author of six previous collections of poetry who has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and other awards. 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