{"product_id":"grenadine-and-other-love-affairs-poems-9781945049354","title":"Grenadine and Other Love Affairs: poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eGrenadine and Other Love Affairs\"\u003c\/em\u003e is the work of an alarming talent. An intricate gem of a poetic debut.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Grace's poetry is laden with sensuous imagery: 'Ignominious fruit of that garden \/ my carmine lips, your garnet desire.' The most compelling aspect of this ingenious body of verse is the poet's determination to excavate ever deeper layers of meaning...\"-\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A gorgeous and smart debut.\" -Rebecca Gayle Howell, Poetry Editor, Oxford American\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In this sensuous debut poetry collection, Grenadine and Other Love Affairs, Carolyn Grace explores meaning through body, image, form, music, myth, and history- and always through language that 'must stretch to convey \/ only the edge' of the subject ('Grenadine'). In Grace's deft hands, stretch it does- stretch and infuse, suffuse, penetrate, undercut, probe, and play with meaning...To read these poems is to touch and taste and hold love deeply in body and soul, to celebrate love, unflinching and painful and joyful. 'Poetry, ' Grace writes, is 'prayer desired exactitude of thought-the magical incantation of the essential ('Delphic', in 'Reverie').'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCome, enter this magical, essential world. Let its music sound your depths, its precision sharpen your mind. Then prepare to leave changed, your self challenged and enlarged.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLIBBY FALK JONES, Professor of English, Emerita, Berea College\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carolyn Grace\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Shadelandhouse Modern Press, LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/02\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781945049354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2023\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shadelandhouse Modern Press, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40868951720051,"sku":"1945049359","price":22.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_1b0228fe-9fe0-42fc-832d-fe45257bf378.jpg?v=1688130852","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/grenadine-and-other-love-affairs-poems-9781945049354","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}