{"product_id":"calle-florista-9780226295329","title":"Calle Florista","description":"\u003ci\u003eThis World and That One\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sometimes you defy it, \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI am not that\u003c\/i\u003e, watching a stranger \u003cbr\u003e cry like a dog when she thinks she's alone \u003cbr\u003e at the kitchen window, hands forgotten \u003cbr\u003e under the running tap. \u003cbr\u003e The curtains blow out, flap the other side of the sill. \u003cbr\u003e In you one hole fills another, \u003cbr\u003e stacked like cups. \u003cbr\u003e You remember your hands. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Connie Voisine's third book of poems centers on the border between the United States and Mexico, celebrating the stunning, severe desert landscape found there. This setting marks the occasion as well for Voisine to explore themes of splitting and friction in both human and political contexts. Whose space is this border, she asks, and what voice can possibly tell the story of this place? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In a wry, elegiac mode, the poems of \u003ci\u003eCalle Florista\u003c\/i\u003e take us both to the edge of our country and the edge of our faith in art and the world. This is mature work, offering us poems that oscillate between the articulation of complex, private sensibilities and the directness of a poet cracking the private self open--and making it vulnerable to the wider world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Connie Voisine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/20\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226295329\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eConnie Voisine\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of English at New Mexico State University. She is the author of two previous books of poems: \u003ci\u003eRare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by the University of Chicago Press; and \u003ci\u003eCathedral of the North\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39937689387123,"sku":"9.78023E+12","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_7d33eb43-8102-4fdd-b48a-c6a97a7e7028.jpg?v=1647995800","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/calle-florista-9780226295329","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}