{"product_id":"the-reservoir-poems-9780820324630","title":"The Reservoir: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Donna Stonecipher's debut collection of poems, a continual renovation of prose-poem forms unites narrative with lyricism to invent a luxurious little country, where the elegance of architecture, specifically European, houses a purely American spirit. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Anything seen through an arch is instantly picturesque,\" declares the first line of \"Album.\" Form renders meaning and makes beauty possible, and yet the arch is an artificial imposition on the scene. Likewise, birds, butterflies, and a swan flit through the poems, symbols of the artifice of ornamentation that dazzles in the distance but disappoints upon closer inspection; in these poems, a bird in the bush is worth two in the hand. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is the reservoir, artificial but functional, beautiful only incidentally, that, \"placid through the seasons, may save us.\" The union of narrative (function) and lyricism (beauty) in the reservoir, both reserving and reserved, results in poems that have much to tell, and even more to hold in, leaving the reader with the impression of secrets partly revealed, partly kept in reserve as mercurial lifeblood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donna Stonecipher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/18\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.48h x 6.46w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820324630\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePW Notes and Reprints\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/04\/2002 pg. 79\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/04\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDonna Stonecipher grew up in Seattle and Teheran. She lived in Prague from 1994 to 1998 and graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2001. Her poems have appeared in \"Denver Quarterly,\" \"Field,\" \"Indiana Review,\" \"New American Writing,\" and \"Web Conjunctions,\" among other journals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40414656626803,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_d575c70f-7349-49ba-8db5-2b09ca698c1e.jpg?v=1662213545","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-reservoir-poems-9780820324630","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}