{"product_id":"a-prayer-the-body-makes-penny-harter-9781952326042","title":"A Prayer the Body Makes","description":"Penny Harter's poems bind up bristle and bone, weed and seed, salt and sand together in a tender alchemy. These poems beckon to the broken open heart. Stop by for a visit. Learn the names of honey, the bitter and the sweet. The reader lingers, listening to\u003ci\u003e this prayer that we \/ may all practice it together.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eKim Langley, Author of \u003ci\u003eSend My Roots Rain: A Companion on the Grief Journey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in Penny Harter's enviable body of work bear a striking resemblance to prayer, coming as they do from a place of stillness and deep intention. \u003ci\u003eA Prayer the Body Makes, \u003c\/i\u003e however, is her most accomplished, most flawlessly constructed book yet, inviting us to pay closer attention to the world around us and the many worlds held within us. In Penny Harter's hands, everything comes alive-from a kitchen that \u003ci\u003ebreathes as if sea-wind \/ has entered, \u003c\/i\u003e to the farmhouse of her dreams, to her long-lost father singing again with her in their old Chrysler sedan as he tosses cigarettes out the window like \"dying stars\" whose light will never entirely go out. Read this book as you would a devotional text to remind yourself each day just how much there still is to love in this world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Crews, Editor of \u003ci\u003e?Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading \u003ci\u003eA Prayer the Body Makes, \u003c\/i\u003e I think of what it means when we say we are moved by art-how at the beginning of an encounter we are in one place, and at the end, another. Penny Harter's poems, one by one, exemplify that movement from quotidian to transcendent to sublime. Harter's poems are equally at home in lush landscapes and hospital rooms, beginning with physical detail and ending with a glimpse of eternity, as in \"On Pike's Peak I Eat Donuts,\" \u003ci\u003eYou've done it, girl  You've done it, \/ climbed above the tree line, and come back. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDonna Hilbert, \u003ci\u003e Gravity: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Penny Harter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1952326044\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781952326042\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelsay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.18d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penny Harter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44058456129791,"sku":"9781952326042","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e015cf4a-cbc3-49f5-89a9-94c869b63c27.jpg?v=1685052656","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-prayer-the-body-makes-penny-harter-9781952326042","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}