{"product_id":"holy-magic-book-priscilla-long-9781936657568","title":"Holy Magic","description":"\u003cp\u003ePriscilla Long contains multitudes: scientific writer, art scholar, social activist, historical enthusiast, and well-published poet. If we are, as Muriel Rukeyser might compel us 'to learn the edges of darkness, ' then we must also experience illuminations both resplendent and routine: light beaming on glorious yellows and bawdy purples, spiritual blues and restful greens. Reading this book, I feel as if I'm being skillfully guided by someone who knows art and, perhaps more vividly, believes in how art makes our lives more resonant-sometimes more pleasantly aware, sometimes more susceptible to pain, but always more fully felt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Tod Marshall, Washington State Poet Laureate, 2016-2018\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHoly Magic\u003c\/em\u003e leans into the palette of our days and lays out the case, poem by poem, that the light vibrations that surround us are more than a scientific fact, they enter our bodies, trigger our imaginations, inform our moods, soothe our senses. In 'A Glass of Bitter Ale, ' we see the yellow tinge of a bruise, a raincoat glistening with rain and consider the tonalities of pee.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHues echo and inform each other in these poems, much in the way life experiences paint and retouch a person's life. Long transmutes life's magic from color to syllables for our delight in these varied and inventive poems. From the tragic, via the mundane, to the sublime, \u003cem\u003eHoly Magic\u003c\/em\u003e hums in technicolor the song of our existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Claudia Castro Luna, Washington State Poet Laureate, 2018-2021\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50394403340561,"sku":"CIN1936657562G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51054906310929,"sku":"NIN9781936657568","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52669192470801,"sku":"NLS9781936657568","price":11.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1936657562.jpg?v=1751281822","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/holy-magic-book-priscilla-long-9781936657568","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}