{"product_id":"a-leaf-called-socrates-ann-holmes-9781450281447","title":"A Leaf Called Socrates: Poetry Memoir by Ann Holmes","description":"The interplay of the written word and the painted image converge in Ann Holmes' skillfully crafted poetry. Holmes gets inside the action of a poem, imagining what it is like to be the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, a goat in Greece, spring beginning, a cloud refusing to change its form. Love, loss, wonder, and the quirkiness of life leap off the page.\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"How rich a palette, poet-artist Ann Holmes' brings to her second collection \"A Leaf Called Socrates.\" How powerful is her artist pen as she approaches biblical and ancient figures as intimates. \"I glaze a Bosch bubble\/around Adam and Eve\/so they may stay in the garden.\" With engines of irony and honesty, her poem \"When I knew,\" creates a loving reproach to intimate family encounters. Her poems, revealing human frailties, glow nonetheless, with color and affection. After her sojourn as an artist in Japan, she evokes a place where 'Seven round holes\/one above the other\/\"exist, \"as if the moon\/ dropped out\/ of the sky.\" In this new collection of poetry, her language, phrase and imagery paint emotional hues to reveal people in their flaws and creative gifts.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e -Lou Barrett, author of \u003ci\u003eConnecting Flights, Doors Gates\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePortals, Clotheslines\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ann Holmes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1450281443\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781450281447\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/29\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ann Holmes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44123733655807,"sku":"9781450281447","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f3a400d8-1e8d-4930-a792-00a95e8651cd.jpg?v=1687432558","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-leaf-called-socrates-ann-holmes-9781450281447","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}