{"product_id":"dying-for-beauty-poems-paperback","title":"Dying for Beauty: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGail Wronsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether paying tribute to literary icons such as Walt Whitman and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, or examining global and cultural degradation, Wronsky proves to be a poet of sharp wit and endearing wonder. The crowning jewel of \u003ci\u003eDying for Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e is \"Desdemona,\" a nearly book-length lyric that alternates between meditation and dramatization, between discourse and incantation. \"I started out thinking I was writing an elegy for the earth - from my own self, in my own neighborhood, with its crack addicts and war-like helicopters, its poverty and ?lthiness...And yet also, here I was with a new daughter and this love in me, equal to nothing else.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Formally, the poem ['Desdemona'] brings into its amplitude and openness material that could be inert, but is lifted always by rhythmic urgency and a faultless, inventive music....Wronsky is also trying to think through the poem, reason passionately through its issues of language, gender, fear and loss.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGail Wronsky\u003c\/b\u003e received a BA and an MFA from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. from the University of Utah. She is the author of two books of poetry and teaches at Loyola-Marymount University in Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.28 x 8.93 x 5.49 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763606946080,"sku":"9781556591358","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5cffe44c0ea832e6c5c022bc762ee7d1.webp?v=1780236728","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/dying-for-beauty-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}