{"product_id":"notes-to-the-beloved-9780983136231","title":"Notes to the Beloved","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes to The Beloved\u003c\/em\u003e is full of the physical world, illuminated by a dynamic narrative sensibility, a vision of down-to-earth love, an active yearning to understand the world, and plenty of kick-ass images, metaphors, and similes: You make a matchstick of your finger, \/dunk the tip in Bombshell Red.\/Then your lips are two flickers, \/in the shadows of your ears, smoldering\/ flowers. You draw a smoky line\/ between lid and lash and dash out.\/ After reading this book not only did I understand the physical world in a more intimate and immediate way but I felt more a part of it. And what's more I wanted desperately to be the beloved, the other that an artist reaches for. Isn't this what we want from poetry? At least, isn't it one of the great desired experiences? To be turned around, made newer, have been blown up, by a collection of poems? To be like Johann Sebastian\/on the banks of the Rhine, letting notes fill the rivers\/of his hands, then turning back\/to compose the world, \/map the road\/aright with song, so\/we could keep time\/like this, getting high?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michelle Bitting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e C\u0026amp;r Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780983136231\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Best Indie Books\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2012 pg. 9\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBitting, Michelle:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Michelle Bitting's first collection, GOOD FRIDAY KISS (C\u0026amp;R, 2008) won the DeNovo First Book Award. Her second collection, \u003cem\u003eNotes To The Beloved\u003c\/em\u003e (SPC, 2011) won the Sacramento Poetry Center Book Award and received a starred review from \u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e. Her newest collections are THE COUPLE WHO FELL TO EARTH (C\u0026amp;R Press, 2016) and NOTES TO THE BELOVED (C\u0026amp;R Press, 2017). Poems have been published in the \u003cem\u003eAmerican Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Narrative, The L.A. Weekly, diode, Linebreak, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Paris-American\u003c\/em\u003e, and have been nominated for the Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University and is currently a PhD candidate in Mythological Studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She grew up in Los Angeles near the ocean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"C\u0026r Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":41015419994227,"sku":"9.78098E+12","price":28.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_061cb8ad-d119-460e-84bc-89d6cbb10227.jpg?v=1697557725","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/notes-to-the-beloved-9780983136231","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}