{"product_id":"romance-language-able-muse-book-award-for-poetry-hardcover","title":"Romance Language (Able Muse Book Award for Poetry) - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmy Glynn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmy Glynn's \u003cem\u003eRomance Language\u003c\/em\u003e is a wellspring of culture, nature, natural phenomena, myths, esoterica. A kaleidoscope of sciences and disciplines-spanning archeology, acoustics, botany, zoology, psychology, cosmology, meteorology, mythology-are freely juxtaposed with the bliss of romance gained to longing for the one lost, the celebration of nature and the teeming creatures therein to hope for their enduring sustenance. A logophilic showcase and worthy winner of the 2022 Able Muse Book Award, \u003cem\u003eRomance Language\u003c\/em\u003e transports the reader into a sensory and cerebral world of the real and imagined, ever reaching for stimulus, wisdom, understanding, and enlightenment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003cem\u003eROMANCE LANGUAGE\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRomance Language\u003c\/em\u003e thrills to the natural world in all its boggling multiplicity, while reserving a barrage of tart ironies for the fallen humans who inhabit it-the lovers who fail us and those, long gone, we can never let go of. Glynn understands that science is no check to mystery, that we subsist in \"an ocean of cadence\" that was here before us: \"The beginning was music. There was music first.\" Her songs channel that original music \"of tide, chaos, and rhythm\" with such fierceness and sorrow that we are compelled to listen. Their effect is revelatory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-David Yezzi, author of \u003cem\u003eMore Things in Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLate Romance: Anthony Hecht\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003cem\u003eRomance Language\u003c\/em\u003e consistently, and seemingly without effort, manage a remarkable feat: they're unfailingly attentive to the situational subtext that underlies each foray, whether into nature, art, or mythology. With their rueful irony and wit, their candor and self-awareness, these poems are not only technically flawless but also insistently, and sometimes tetchily, human.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Rachel Hadas, 2022 Able Muse Book Award judge, author of \u003cem\u003eLove and Dread\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmy Glynn has built upon her naturalist's precision, her musician's ear, and her talent for unexpected but apt metaphor, with a heightened attention to what we learn in love. \u003cem\u003eRomance Language\u003c\/em\u003e is as much about language, though, as it is about romance. Glynn is a dazzling word-hoarder and -shaper. With serious wit, she entwines autobiography with the life of other creatures (most beautifully, birds) and knows our own scale in the landscape and seascape. For all her artifice, her plainest truths are the most moving, as when she hopes for a \"gift \/\/ for seeing as a gift whatever happens \/ to us.\" These poems \"happen\" to the reader as a great gift, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Mary Jo Salter, author of \u003cem\u003eZoom Rooms\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Surveyors\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlynn brings a polymathic sensibility to her writing, conversant in both high and vernacular diction on subjects ranging widely from science and classical literature to current politics and pop culture. The poems-bold, vibrant, mercurial, mysterious, sometimes wickedly funny, and always highly musical-remind me that form is a living, breathing part of our contemporary canon. Whether fixed like the sonnet or ghazal, or nonce, or free verse-these poems are constructed with great passion and precision, and the result is a luminous, powerful, and utterly original outpouring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Rebecca Foust, author of \u003cem\u003eParadise Drive\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOnly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmy Glynn is a poet and essayist whose work appears widely in journals and anthologies including \u003cem\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eA Modern Herbal\u003c\/em\u003e (Measure Press, 2013). She has received the Troubadour Prize, The SPUR Award of the Academy of Western Writers, \u003cem\u003ePoetry Northwest\u003c\/em\u003e's Carolyn Kizer Award, and two James Merrill House fellowships, among other honors. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 108\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 02, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51774534582560,"sku":"9781773491554","price":34.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e2676be5edea237895c5192d10a5b906.webp?v=1780450443","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/romance-language-able-muse-book-award-for-poetry-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}