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Jewish Studies. Women's Studies. WINER OF THE 2015 TENTH GATE PRIZE. Barber's third full-length collection is described by Maggie Dietz as Formally agile and tersely emotive. Dietz continues, To give over to the trustworthy intelligence of these poems, to inhabit the world as Barber sees and painstakingly recreates it, is to come away gratified, and graced by the poet's immense and intricate gifts. WORKS ON PAPER is a brilliant and virtuosic book, unflinching in its incisiveness. Daniel Tobin says Barber possesses a contemplative brilliance rare in contemporary American poetry, while Martha Collins concludes that her poems speak both for and beyond the fragility of existence. seamlessly fusing an often autumnal natural world with delicate evocations of illness, grief, and love.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51056165945617,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51056168993041,"sku":"NIN9781944585020","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1944585028.jpg?v=1751124706"},{"product_id":"sliding-boat-our-bodies-made-book-jennifer-barber-9781944585556","title":"The Sliding Boat Our Bodies Made","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn THE SLIDING BOAT OUR BODIES MADE, we see the ecology of compassion and hopefulness, a fragile latticework made of the concern for how all things might fall away in a world seeming to be too full of loss. With a meticulousness like the Zen of poets in ancient China, Barber takes us to a place where we can believe there will always be a chance to breathe, even as we feel the terror of life in the beauty of its most minute details. These are finely crafted poems with turns on the torso of history and the times in which we live as if those things are a single tree of life, and they are. Barber teaches us how to know subtlety, how it can bring a fullness to us, a light without limits.--Afaa M. Weaver\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'No one's being watched\/though watchfulness remains' in Barber's most accomplished collection, because an intimate watchfulness births these exquisite poems. Their omniscient power blazons any corner of consciousness so that 'A tree rubs a cloud between its fingers, ' 'a seedpod answers a questionnaire, ' a creation myth breathes anew, and a museum goer's intent gaze at a painting's three oranges causes them to 'glow like coals in you.' Her elegant, steely, and elegiac prowess brings to the present a 1412 Spanish court order to segregate the Jews from the Christians as well as a memory of her daughter--at present heading out to her boyfriend's--as a toddler first standing 'at the center of the world.' Ultimately watchful of love's relationship to both loss and beauty, Barber's concomitant revelations remain aglow in us. --Jessica Greenbaum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetry. Jewish Studies. 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