{"product_id":"a-little-middle-of-the-night-paperback","title":"A Little Middle of the Night - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMolly Brodak\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe language of Molly Brodak's first full-length collection, \u003ci\u003eA Little Middle of the Night\u003c\/i\u003e, is ever shifting, brightly sonic, and disarming while exploring the margin between nature and art, darkness and beauty, dreams and awakenings. As echoed in one epigraph from Emerson, these poems capture \"the Exact and the Vast\" of consciousness in intense lyric verse with an angular and almost scientific sensitivity. Here is a speaker intent on discovery: \"Oh whole world, we choose \/ another.\" \u003cbr\u003e This award-winning collection simmers with wit as Brodak confronts tragedy, childhood losses, transcendent love, and the question of art itself. Tinged with a suffering--\"I was the littlest wastebasket. \/ I was my own church. Except-- \/ scared, scared\"--that rises above personal sorrow, her fierce and painterly poems redefine nature and art and what exists between: \"Lately, there is spangled shade in my space \/ and a cold apple orchard to tend in place of consciousness.\" As Reginald Shepherd said about the poems in Brodak's first collection, the chapbook \u003ci\u003eInstructions for a Painting\u003c\/i\u003e, her world is \"'small enough \/ to sing in all directions, ' and large enough to take us there.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichigan-born Molly Brodak currently lives in Augusta, Georgia, where she is a lecturer in English and humanities at Augusta State University. Her work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eColorado Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFIELD\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNinth Letter\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eJournal\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNorthwest Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLaurel Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Orleans Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHayden's Ferry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Her chapbook \u003ci\u003eInstructions for a Painting \u003c\/i\u003ewas chosen by Reginald Shepherd for the 2007 GreenTower Press Midwest Chapbook Series. \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 82\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.98 x 6.56 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771284586784,"sku":"9781587298585","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/172b004de328857409465036ad4ac68a.webp?v=1780384145","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-little-middle-of-the-night-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}