{"product_id":"midnight-in-the-guest-room-paperback","title":"Midnight in the Guest Room - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJan Bailey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMidnight in the Guest Room\u003c\/i\u003e Jan Bailey locates the bliss of the routine experiences in women's lives--childhood, love, marriage, sexuality, birth, child rearing, aging--and transforms them into moments of transcendent power and beauty. With uncommon wit and sensitivity she offers us poems about the pleasures of a woman's soft and unstylish belly; the fierceness of mother love; the desolation of a miscarriage; the hilarious illusion of sexual healing; the unexpected eroticism of breast feeding: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003efrom Mornings in the Blue House: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe draped her newborn like a sheaf of peonies\u003cbr\u003eacross her lap, peeled back the blanket from\u003cbr\u003ethe puffball face, then parted her robe, pinched\u003cbr\u003eher nipple and settled in her daughter there\u003cbr\u003eand something sweetly sexual rose between\u003cbr\u003ethem--the pressure, the release--and she fell\u003cbr\u003efully into love, holding nothing back\u003cbr\u003eas with a man, whose wounding begins\u003cbr\u003eas soon as he cries Baby and rolls over.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRooted in the landscape of the South, celebrating the private treasures to be found in the everyday world, her poems speak to us all of the joys and the losses of the seasons of our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJan Bailey\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in the foothills of South Carolina. The author of two highly regarded volumes of poetry, \u003ci\u003ePaper Clothes \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHeart of the Other\u003c\/i\u003e, she is a recipient of the South Carolina Arts Commission Fellowship in Poetry. She holds an MFA from Vermont College and -divides her time between South Carolina, where she is chair of the creative writing department of the Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, and Monhegan Island, Maine, where she teaches poetry workshops and operates the island general store.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 92\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 8.42 x 5.58 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772827828512,"sku":"9780972898409","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/cb7083a9da15949826e739d19733d867.webp?v=1780415172","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/midnight-in-the-guest-room-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}