{"product_id":"a-late-spring-and-after-robert-b-shaw-9781936671380","title":"A Late Spring, and After","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert B. Shaw explores the depths of experience, childhood, memory, and his midwestern roots: \"The days go slowly but the years go fast. \/ Old movies used to bridge the story's gaps \/ by morphing falling leaves to frantic snow ...\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe heart of his book is a series of meditations on his wife's illness, passing, and what remains after--the vivid memories of time well-spent: \"We used to work \/ together at it, each on a different side, \/ she stirring, measuring, tasting, I \/ chopping, dicing, mincing as required. \/ Rocking the blade the way she showed me to, \/ I freed from each raw thing a smell we liked: \/ the garlic's earthy reek, the ginger's sting, \/ the anise wisping up from celery leaves.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Robert B. Shaw anchors A Late Spring, and After with a group of beautiful elegies for his wife. These recall, in their deep feeling and stylistic distinction, Thomas Hardy's \"Poems of 1912-13.\" No less impressive are the other poems in this book. Time and again, Shaw brings his subjects to life with memorable description. Handles of tools look \"like lemon jelly petrified.\" A man smokes on a dark porch at night, \"making himself evident by inhaling, \/ rousing an ember-dot of hot vermilion.\" And the subjects themselves encompass an extraordinarily wide range of experience. Plants and animals, youth and age, private life and public history--everything is here in glorious enchantment and detail.\"--Timothy Steele\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert B. Shaw is the author of six books of poetry, the latest of which, \u003cem\u003eAromatics\u003c\/em\u003e, was co-winner of The Poets' Prize. For his prose work, \u003cem\u003eBlank Verse: A Guide to Its History and Use\u003c\/em\u003e, he received the Robert Fitzgerald Award. He recently retired from Mount Holyoke College, where he was the Emily Dickinson Professor of English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert B. Shaw\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1936671387\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781936671380\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pinyon Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/12\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d","brand":"Robert B. Shaw","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43978846994687,"sku":"9781936671380","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f5ea4991-861d-44c2-aeb9-9167196f8158.jpg?v=1683243259","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-late-spring-and-after-robert-b-shaw-9781936671380","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}