{"product_id":"dont-misplace-the-moon-paperback","title":"Don't Misplace the Moon - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnnie Stenzel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnnie Stenzel's poetry collection, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eDon't misplace the moon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, is a lyrical love song to living, sensuous and delightful, a reminder to savor what dwindles, to live in \"the barefaced moment \/ called Now.\" With a keen eye and a gift for conjuring sensory imagery that borders on the mystical, Stenzel shows us a world \"gauzed with the stain of morning light,\" an apple's riotous \"shout of flavor,\" how \"the bright of this red \/ stands up to a dim that would engulf [her].\" This book builds a trellis of beauty, a sturdy support a person can cling to and clamber up. Though \"being alive is a wound that won't heal,\" the poems in \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eDon't misplace the moon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e nudge us toward joy and wonder, and linger, long after we finish reading, like \"a whisper \/ as if bliss were stirring.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Francesca Bell, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Small Sound\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eBright Stain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by Red Hen Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Annie Stenzel's attentive poems, the birds sing \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003enot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \"how can I, how can I... but something similar.\" Through such meticulous observation of songbirds, scarlet gerbera, singing toadfish, and the moon, the poet revels as she reveals, offering a seasoned perspective, an equanimity, sharing her wisdom about \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ehow can I\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e be alone with a \"trickster mind \/ an everyday cornucopia.\" In good-natured despair, the poet sings along with the sensual world, her wordplay and formal poems summoning wonder to temper the wanting and disappointments in life. This is a capacious collection, and generous, its hands pressed together in a gesture both of supplication and of praise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Jessica Goodfellow, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhiteout\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Alaska Press), \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eMendeleev's Mandala\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (Mayapple Press) and \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Insomniac's Weather Report\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (Isobar Press)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ah, listen! how often language rings me \/ like a sympathetic bell,\" urges Annie Stenzel in her exuberant collection \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eDon't misplace the moon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e. What can the reader do but follow the poet's entrancing voice and keen eye through landscapes that both are and are not of this world? Stenzel's lavish poems peel veil after veil from reality, for \"everything [she sees] hides another thing.\" There's a longing here for being wholeheartedly present, for whittling a sturdier self through language, because \"[b]eing alive is a wound that won't heal.\" And there's a vibrant excitement here to be no more than one already is, a temporary vessel that can contain, for a moment, the universe; a human being who yearns \"to know hunger, and imagine.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Romana Iorga, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eTemporary Skin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(forthcoming, Glass Lyre Press)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.21 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 30, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51750541787424,"sku":"9781639805853","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7222206b2a07bbf13d574a12e14ca129.webp?v=1779952633","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/dont-misplace-the-moon-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}