{"product_id":"dormant-paperback","title":"Dormant - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHarriet Ribot\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eDormant\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eHarriet Ribot\u003c\/strong\u003e's deeply honest first book of poetry, the reader is invited to share a writer's late life self-discovery. With children long ago raised and husband gone, Ribot doesn't over-romanticize her lived experience. \"When your brain\/has lain\/dormant\/what torment\/to waken this thing\" she tells us in the title poem. In another she writes, \"Patience is time spread thin over peaks of frustration\/and mounds of buried dreams, still visible\/as one looks back over many years.\" A deep and playful affection for language lace together love, loss and painful awakening throughout this lovely book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e -Roy Nathanson\u003c\/strong\u003e is author of \u003cem\u003eSubway Moon, \u003c\/em\u003e and teaches music at the NYU Gallatin School\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I write to share\" writes \u003cstrong\u003eHarriet Ribot\u003c\/strong\u003e in her new book of poems, \u003cem\u003e Dormant.\u003c\/em\u003e Words tumble gently down the page. An occasional rhyme gives a boost. But the poems always land, gently, in the heart. Maybe, as \"The Little Imp\" says, \"The whole world has a common bond of loneliness.\" Maybe, as in \"The Net,\" There are \"structures\/holding us together in delicate balance.\" In this \"keep-moving world\" where we \"drink from the fountain of kiss,\" Harriet reminds us that when you are on \"the corner of somewhere to someplace else\" that \"life's what you choose-not what you've found.\" \"Loosen up...\" she urges, \"live it up...show love to someone else!\" Reader, follow the advice in these poems, and join with our Poet, saying \"Having loved, I can face the future.\"\u003cstrong\u003e -Bob Holman\u003c\/strong\u003e, activist, poet and filmmaker, is author of 17 volumes of poetry, most recently  \u003cem\u003e(Un)spoken\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLife Poem\u003c\/em\u003e, is founder of the Bowery Poetry Club and host of Language Matters\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 70\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.17 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 13, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51750129369376,"sku":"9798888383797","price":33.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b8227a983e3bda6597f324f78ef7c650.webp?v=1779943769","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/dormant-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}