{"product_id":"lucky-witness-paperback","title":"Lucky Witness - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKathleen Lynch\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne senses that Kathleen Lynch -- in her brilliant, sometimes devastating book -- intends her title to be read un-ironically. As in Ingmar Bergman films, the poems cast a light on various darknesses that in their exposures, their witnessing, are the essential cries and whispers of poetry. In \"Throes,\" she says, \"The saint flung himself \/ into a thorn bush to incur \/ wounds worthy of his joy.\" Lynch's poems have that kind of complexity, and seem to know \"We need a face \/ to express the hidden \/ face.\" When that face is found, as it often is in these poems, it contains a voice, which can make us smile as well as wince at life's absurdities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKathleen Lynch's first book, \u003cem\u003eHinge\u003c\/em\u003e, won The Black Zinnias Poetry Book Award. Her chapbooks include \u003cem\u003eHow to Build and Owl\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAlterations of Rising\u003c\/em\u003e, both in the Select Poets Series from Small Poetry Press; \u003cem\u003eNo Spring Chicken\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the White Eagle Coffee Store Press Chapbook Prize; and \u003cem\u003eKathleen Lynch Greatest Hits: 1985-2001\u003c\/em\u003e in the Pudding House Press Greatest Hits Series. Her poem, \"Abracadabra\", won a 2018 Pushcart Prize. Lynch won the 2019 Genosko Flash Fiction Award first prize. Kathleen lives in Sacramento, California.\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 0.23 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 30, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755318640928,"sku":"9781421836263","price":22.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/163294181f673b5f80daaf35771034fc.webp?v=1780055525","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/lucky-witness-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}