{"product_id":"the-alphabet-in-the-park-selected-poems-9780819511775","title":"The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003ePoetry that eloquently concentrates on the spiritual and physical lives of women.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the first book published in English by of the work of Brazilian poet Adélia Prado. Incorporating poems published over the past fifteen years, The Alphabet in the Park is a book of passion and intelligence, wit and instinct. These are poems about human concerns, especially those of women, about living in one's body and out of it, about the physical but also the spiritual and the imaginative life. Prado also writes about ordinary matters; she insists that the human experience is both mystical and carnal. To Prado these are not contradictory: It's the soul that's erotic, she writes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Ellen Watson says in her introduction, Adélia Prados poetry is a poetry of abundance. These poems overflow with the humble, grand, various stuff of daily life - necklaces, bicycles, fish; saints and prostitutes and presidents; innumerable chickens and musical instruments...And, seemingly at every turn, there is food. But also, an abundance of dark things, cancer, death, greed. These are poems of appetite, all kinds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adélia Prado\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.16h x 6.02w x 0.23d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819511775\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wesleyan University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39825997365363,"sku":"9780819511775","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_b484569f-e346-4164-b734-035664e5c092.jpg?v=1644540346","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-alphabet-in-the-park-selected-poems-9780819511775","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}