{"product_id":"granted-paperback","title":"Granted - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Szybist\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing natural, biblical, and classical imagery, these poems explore the difficulties of faith and love--particularly the difficulties of their expression, their performance. Moving between dramatic and interior monologue, and moving through intersecting histories, the ambiguities of inwardness and the eros of wakeful existence, these poems search for relationships with self, others, the world and God that are authentic--however quirky or strange.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is poetry of a rare fine delicacy. Its very modesty testifies to a great ambition--to overcome by the quietest of means.--Donald Justice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn Tennessee I Found a Firefly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlashing in the grass; the mouth of a spider clung\u003cbr\u003eto the dark of it: the legs of the spider\u003cbr\u003eheld the tucked wings close, \u003cbr\u003eheld the abdomen still in the midst of calling\u003cbr\u003ewith thrusts of phosphorescent light--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I am tired of being human, I try to remember\u003cbr\u003ethe two stuck together like burrs. I try to place them\u003cbr\u003ecentral in my mind where everything else must\u003cbr\u003esurround them, must see the burr and the barb of them.\u003cbr\u003eThere is courtship, and there is hunger. I suppose\u003cbr\u003ethere are grips from which even angels cannot fly.\u003cbr\u003eEven imagined ones. Luciferin, luciferase.\u003cbr\u003eWhen I am tired of only touching, \u003cbr\u003eI have my mouth to try to tell you\u003cbr\u003ewhat, in your arms, is not erased\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is poetry of a rare fine delicacy. Its very modesty testifies to a great ambition--to overcome by the quietest of means.--Donald Justice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.25 x 8.62 x 5.52 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Book Critics Circle Award (2003)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760169976096,"sku":"9781882295371","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f5d1206dabde3d02af49b8497ca8e24a.webp?v=1780173439","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/granted-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}