{"product_id":"a-garden-in-kentucky-jane-gentry-9780807120033","title":"A Garden in Kentucky: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this collection Jane Gentry evokes, in images as haunting as the Kentucky landscape, a garden thriving with the flowers of memory, a physical world that reflects a realm of transcendence. In this garden, cosmic harmony reveals itself in the \"ciphers\" of roots and worms, in a piece of blue willow china--\"a blaze of balance, of wholeness\"--that survives a fire in which a lonely, tormented neighbor died. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe white sheets crack in the wind, \u003cbr\u003e fat bellies of sails\u003cbr\u003e sweet as round stomachs of children. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStark, lovely, elegiac, gently surreal, Gentry's poems resonate and echo in the vast spaces of the heart; long after being read, lines return, lines like those of the lovely \"In the Moment of My Death (For My Father)\" that beg to be memorized: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the moment of my death\u003cbr\u003e may your old happiness light my way;\u003cbr\u003e and the image of your face\u003cbr\u003e smiling, happy at my coming, \u003cbr\u003e be a lantern in the dark. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe taste of desire, the pang of remembered loss, the sorrow of leaving a house--Jane Gentry has found a way to make these things new. \u003ci\u003eA Garden in Kentucky\u003c\/i\u003e is a place of mystery, terror, beauty, and wonder, a garden to which readers will find themselves retuning again and again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jane Gentry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807120030\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807120033\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 6.04w x 0.32d","brand":"Jane Gentry","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47136117424383,"sku":"9780807120033","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_85a8b2a3-2003-4035-9ddb-b2bfbbdda01b.jpg?v=1755022398","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-garden-in-kentucky-jane-gentry-9780807120033","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}