{"product_id":"in-velvet-new-and-selected-poems-paperback","title":"In Velvet: New and Selected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJeanne Bryner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is a full collection of Jeanne Bryners work as an American woman and nurse. Jeanne Bryner asks of us, \"\u003cem\u003eWhere are the great studies on buried miners\/burned women, displaced steel workers\/the lost towns gutted like deer\/people left to choose between the river and the sky?\" \u003c\/em\u003eIn this new collection of poetry, Bryner celebrates and mourns those unstudied and unsung. With stunning specificity, she catalogs their courage: the nurse who, from a blue paper cup, baptizes a dying husband; the firefighter kneeling beside the gurney of a toddler; a schoolteacher carrying a disabled child \"\u003cem\u003edown\/every\/single\/step\/in those ivory pumps.\" \u003c\/em\u003eBryner's tender rendering of the unsung reminds us of our fleeting connection between the river and sky. - Geraldine Gorman, co-editor with Paula Sergi for A Call to Nursing, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJeanne Bryner works language, opens it unexpectedly, pries meanings and memories, spins gold from mud, and always hears and speaks the sorrows and hopes of working people. This collection is restorative, an immense and moving achievement. \u003cp\u003e-Janet Zandy, author of \u003cem\u003eHands: Physical Labor, Class, and Cultural Work\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eI love Jeanne Bryner's poetry for the way it pulls me our of being lost in relentless abstract thinking and returns me to the real world of nature and people who know how to live and work in it. Jeanne sees and feels the actual world and also meanings and metaphors, and then shares her vision and her feelings in language that for me brings the world \"health\" to mind and then becomes love, of the most generous kind. Love, strength and beauty radiate from Jeanne's poems as, indeed, they do from herself, personally. -Gurney Norman, author of Kinfolks, and former Poet Laureate of Kentucky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 202\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 03, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51752019001632,"sku":"9781947504455","price":24.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b5132d2d180a8880b222a14f20bd4a80.webp?v=1779985812","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/in-velvet-new-and-selected-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}