{"product_id":"a-rough-deliverance-nancy-bevilaqua-9781493783182","title":"A Rough Deliverance: Collected Poems 1983-2013","description":"\u003ci\u003eHow the night parades. How wretched all\u003cbr\u003e the milky stars a million years\u003cbr\u003e erupting, the dry cicadas, \u003cbr\u003e silent, sliding\u003cbr\u003e among leaves, this glass\u003cbr\u003e I said I wouldn't have. Here's to\u003cbr\u003e a rough deliverance, the fire in the chest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e A collection of poems from the author of Holding Breath: A Memoir of AIDS' Wildfire Days, A Rough Deliverance begins with poems the author wrote as an ambitious and conflicted 22-year old college student just learning to navigate her life on her own, a young woman who wanted nothing more than to be a \"famous poet\", and attended NYU's graduate poetry program in order to try to do that.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt closes with poems written by a woman thirty years older--in some ways very different, in some ways very much the same, perhaps wiser and perhaps not. She is not a famous poet, but she is someone who has loved deeply, witnessed the ravages of an epidemic from the \"front lines,\" grieved, traveled extensively, made terrible choices and perfect ones, over-indulged and abstained, raised a wonderful son, wrestled with anger and shame about the past and fear of what's to come, and finally learned to see all of it as absolutely worthwhile.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a collection of poems that documents a ragged, imperfect, and ultimately joyful life lived one deliverance at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nancy Bevilaqua\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1493783181\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781493783182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/19\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 66\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.16d","brand":"Nancy Bevilaqua","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48458867114239,"sku":"9781493783182","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8a28e9d8-20db-42f1-9a87-548bae4f06ba.jpg?v=1777407104","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-rough-deliverance-nancy-bevilaqua-9781493783182","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}