{"product_id":"into-perfect-spheres-such-holes-are-pierced-paperback","title":"Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCatherine Barnett\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe family response to the sudden deaths of the speaker's two young nieces is at the center of Catherine Barnett's award-winning first collection. This series of elegies records the transit of grief, observing with an unflinching eye how a singular traumatic event can permanently alter our understanding of time, danger, the material world and family. Marked by clarity and restraint, these lyric poems narrate a suspenseful, wrenching story that explores the depths and limits of empathy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Living Room Altar\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eExcept for the shirt pulled from the ocean, \u003cbr\u003eexcept for her hands, which keep folding the shirt, \u003cbr\u003eexcept for her body, which once held their bodies, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003emy sister wants everything back now-- \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf there were a god who could out of empty shells\u003cbr\u003ecarried by waves to shore\u003cbr\u003emake amends-- \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf the ocean saved in a jar\u003cbr\u003ecould keep from turning to salt-- \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe's hearing things: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ebird calling to bird, \u003cbr\u003ecat outside the door, \u003cbr\u003ethorn of the blackberry against the trellis.\u003cp\u003eThese heart-breaking poems of an all-too-human life stay as absolute as the determined craft which made them. There is finally neither irony nor simple despair in what they record. Rather, it is the far deeper response of witness, of recognizing what must be acknowledged and of having the courage and the care to say so. --Robert Creeley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatherine Barnett\u003c\/b\u003e won the 2003 Beatrice Hawley Award for her first collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eInto Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced\u003c\/i\u003e, which was published by Alice James Books in 2004. Her honors include a 2004 Whiting Writers Award, the 2004 Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, a 2005 Pushcart Prize, and a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Iowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Massachusetts Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePleiades\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBarrow Street\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShenandoah\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInterim\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hat\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e. She teaches creative writing at NYU and lives in New York City.\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 0.24 x 8.56 x 5.42 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760169681184,"sku":"9781882295456","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/bc8dfcbb1ad9b6e0db49865aedfa3943.webp?v=1780173435","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/into-perfect-spheres-such-holes-are-pierced-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}