{"product_id":"ripple-scar-and-story-paperback","title":"Ripple, Scar, and Story - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKarla Huston\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA rattlesnake, a sousaphone, a stolen lipstick, a sorry-looking walleye displayed in a\u003cbr\u003eSportsman Bar;\" are just a few of the keys allowing us entry into the multi-generational\u003cbr\u003enarratives in Karla Huston's book. The poems place their faith in the objects, rites of passage, \u003cbr\u003eand ordinary maladies of the observed world, and move by careful attention and clarity of\u003cbr\u003eexpression, toward the discoveries such things reveal. Though the poems are highly personal, \u003cbr\u003efleshed out in minute detail, the feeling extends beyond the personal. Reading Karla Huston's\u003cbr\u003elush and lively poems prompts us toward realizing that it's often in the wear and tear, the\u003cbr\u003eweathering, the major and minor scars we bear, that the stories of our lives are most\u003cbr\u003eprofoundly revealed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Max Garland, Wisconsin Poet Laureate 2013-2014, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Word We Use for It\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI love this book filled with numinous objects of memory and daily life: a grandmother's rolling pin smelling of \"Crisco and butter,\" Father's horns \"upright\/ silver bass and the curly\/sousaphone.\" Mother's gold bridge, \"Now around my neck, \/ a pendant . . .\" I love the sanctification of the lake scape, landscape, of Wisconsin with its \"cathedral of trees,\" and \"more lakes than Minnesota,\" home to cardinals and Sandhill cranes, and frogs and fish. I hold with William Stafford who says, \"Our best work derives merely from a continuity of our daily selves.\" And to Stafford's dictum, I would add the daily selves of our memory, and offer \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eRipple, Scar, and Story\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eas proof, a terrific book by a poet at the height of her powers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Donna Hilbert, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThrenody\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe scars and stories that ripple through this book of gentle poems are centered mainly in the Midwest, with an occasional current reaching as far as California, where the poet lives now. Seeded with notes of resilience, I am Minerva, Athena and Brigit; \"moving through memory, The music lived in his head, the tip of his tongue, the records stacked and dusty on the floor;\" the majority of these poem focus on the past, back when tennis balls were white. Even-handed, but keen, is the sense of loss that stitches much of this book together. \"...when cardinals arrive, They are a visit from the dead....There are no cardinals here. If you return, how will I know?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Ruth Bavetta, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat's Left Over\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 74\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.18 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 24, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51752298643744,"sku":"9781639801732","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c5643444d295dab760a288c3ae0aea6c.webp?v=1779992326","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/ripple-scar-and-story-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}