{"product_id":"slingshots-and-love-plums-poems-paperback","title":"Slingshots and Love Plums - Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWendy Videlock\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSlingshots and Love Plums, \u003c\/em\u003e Wendy Videlock's third full-length collection, sometimes evokes the lightheartedness of \u003cem\u003eThe Dark Gnu and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e previous to it, sometimes enchants with the frolics and insights of her \u003cem\u003eNevertheless\u003c\/em\u003e debut. It especially shines with the brilliance of its wit, its spirituality--as in Videlock's \u003cem\u003efiat lux\u003c\/em\u003e invocation for her \"Dear Reader\" \"resembling the first, or the last word.\" Harnessing proverbs, myths, paeans, execrations, riddles, and pithy odes to the natural world and the people around her, Videlock delivers an inspired collection that rollicks, startles and uplifts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR SLINGSHOTS AND LOVE PLUMS: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom its title to its last poem, Wendy Videlock's \u003cem\u003eSlingshots and Love Plums\u003c\/em\u003e offers a delicious variety of treats, from witty send-ups of contemporary mores to somber reflections on mortality, love, and friendship. The pleasures include off-kilter rhymes, elegant turns, earthy revelations, and the skillful mockery of pretentiousness in its various forms.\u003cbr\u003e -David Caplan, author of \u003cem\u003eIn the World He Created According to His Will\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVidelock arrests because she arrests the complacent drift of sense. She is so good at it that what begins as a taste for her work can quickly turn into a craving-for deliciously cryptic spiritual riddles.\u003cbr\u003e -David J. Rothman, author of \u003cem\u003ePart of the Darkness, \u003c\/em\u003e from the foreword\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWendy Videlock's poems in \u003cem\u003eSlingshots and Love Plums\u003c\/em\u003e sometimes hint at their Colorado origins but are never pinned down by a locality or a life story. They are gleefully universal, taking delight equally in huge abstraction and intimate real-worldliness. Whether enchanting, imploring, or arguing, they always fascinate, concentrating their acrobatics of thought and sound on the knots of the human experience.\u003cbr\u003e -Maryann Corbett, author of \u003cem\u003eMid Evil\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWendy Videlock is one of the few poets I can still read at length and purely for pleasure. Playfully wise, sharp-tongued, and surprising as ever, Slingshots and Love Plums is yet another treasure to be read and reread at your leisure. Thereafter you'll find all your thinking is rhymed-but, don't mind: it's just dust from the master.\u003cbr\u003e -Timothy Green, editor of \u003cem\u003eRattle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWendy Videlock\u003c\/strong\u003e lives on the Western Slope of the Colorado Rockies. Her first full-length collection, \u003cem\u003eNevertheless, \u003c\/em\u003e came out in 2011 and was a finalist for the 2012 Colorado Book Award, followed by \u003cem\u003eThe Dark Gnu\u003c\/em\u003e in 2013, a book she illustrated. Her chapbook, \u003cem\u003eWhat's That Supposed to Mean, \u003c\/em\u003eappeared in 2009. Her poems have been published widely in literary journals, most notably in \u003cem\u003ePoetry\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.28 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 22, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51779303801120,"sku":"9781927409527","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3ca1cd774e4f1fa060deec61eb934da0.webp?v=1780515072","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/slingshots-and-love-plums-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}