{"product_id":"girlie-calendar-paperback","title":"Girlie Calendar - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Meriam\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e* Selected for the 2016 American Library Association Over the Rainbow List\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSong is mysterious. It seems to arise when the separation between sophistication and simplicity has been submerged in deep water. Song is that ringing-out of the wrung heart whereby what is personal becomes what is universal-and so it is fitting that all the archetypal seasons in Mary Meriam's \u003ci\u003eGirlie Calendar\u003c\/i\u003e have their own specific songs to share, their own ardent delights. Yet these delights are hard-fought, because song is also that inspiring moment of transcendence so in evidence in the courage of these lines: \"A knife of pain may bend you over double, \/ but hover, swing from your trapeze, breathe.\" Mary Meriam's songs are thus both breath-taking and breath-giving. Indeed, there is a rigor of architecture in these poems, as well as in the construction of the book as a whole, that is exacting, deliberate, astonishingly disciplined-and yet surrendering to such songs, as a reader, seems as natural as breathing. \"Let steel become a sigh,\" she sings to herself in her month of August. Those five words rise and fall as an exquisitely fragile monument to all song. I would even go so far as to say that they are a powerful medicine for what ails us.\u003cbr\u003e-R. Nemo Hill, Author of \u003ci\u003eWhen Men Bow Down\u003c\/i\u003e and Publisher of EXOT Books\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 110\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 18, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757010583840,"sku":"9780692216729","price":20.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/72d85f4672b27190949132386ebb455d.webp?v=1780091462","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/girlie-calendar-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}