{"product_id":"ivory-cradle-poems-9780966339567","title":"Ivory Cradle: Poems","description":"\u003ci\u003eIvory Cradle\u003c\/i\u003e is the winner of the third annual \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e \/Honickman First Book Prize, as chosen by poet Robert Creeley. In his introduction, Creeley writes, now and again one comes upon a story so quietly and articulately told that it stays in mind long after, echoing, recasting the usual frames of reference and order, making whatever it is the world had been thought to be, quite changed and even, again, unknown. \u003ci\u003eIvory Cradle\u003c\/i\u003e is such a story as it charts a personal journey through questions of faith and history, with its anger redeemed by passion and the transformative power of art. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003efrom Morning in Florence \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eI was out the door and halfway to the elevator\u003cbr\u003eWhen he threatened to throw\u003cbr\u003emy clothes into the lobby. With the baby to think of\u003cbr\u003eI had to know when to stay or go \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo I headed out alone into the consoling brown light\u003cbr\u003eOff the river, feeling the child\u003cbr\u003eSwimming carefully inside me as I walked to see\u003cbr\u003eFra Angelico's frescoes in cells \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhere monks once slept and knelt, contemplated\u003cbr\u003eAnd vanished; where in rapture he worked\u003cbr\u003efast as the plaster dried to get light to wash the wall\u003cbr\u003ethe way God would have done it \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIvory Cradle\u003c\/i\u003e announces a poet fully formed, fully mature, and wild to say things in ways they've never been said before. Rarely, very rarely, is a so-sane heart so beautifully articulated. This is not just an exceptional first book, it is a flat-out exceptional book, period. --Thomas Lux \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReading Anne Marie Macari's poems I think of Jane Kenyon, in her kindred humor, quietness, fierceness, and plain integrity. But this poet is 'flowering dark.'--Jean Valentine \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Marie Macari\u003c\/b\u003e lives in Mt. Kisco, New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anne Marie Macari\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 6.01w x 0.34d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780966339567\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/16\/2000 pg. 67","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40553846308979,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_e2f00c8e-d0a4-4174-87ac-8d7eb1e625e8.jpg?v=1667484068","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/ivory-cradle-poems-9780966339567","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}