{"product_id":"an-imperfect-roundness-melody-newey-johnson-9781948218290","title":"An Imperfect Roundness","description":"What a fresh, original voice  Melody Newey Johnson's poems look inward and outward at the same time and therefore sing with insights about her journey through the canyons, fields, and mountains of a well-lived, thoughtful life. Her metaphors illustrate this simultaneity: her belly is \"a moon full of baby\"; she trusts the sky's \"billion years of blue\". Poems as tight and spare as Emily Dickinson's offer the same kind of depth: beneath each carefully cut, honed surface lie extraordinary thought, faith, and imagination for readers to follow.\u003cbr\u003eSusan Howe, Author of \u003ci\u003eStone Spirits\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSalt\u003c\/i\u003e, and an AML Award-winner in poetry \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePerched somewhere between George Herbert and Mary Oliver, Melody Newey Johnson's poems offer a sustained celebration of \"heaven in ordinary\". They quietly and gently fold experience in on itself, bringing out the richness that had slipped our view, even though it had been there all along.\u003cbr\u003eJason Kerr, Assistant Professor of English, Brigham Young University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChrist's broken body wrapped in a linen chrysalis. Childbirth: a miracle startling as the Nile turned to blood. A collision with modernity, shattering as a motorcycle crash. The poems in Melody Newey Johnson's An Imperfect Roundness shows us God in life's earthquakes, fires, and stillnesses. \u003cbr\u003eJames Goldberg, Author of \u003ci\u003eThe Five Books of Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRemember the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Melody Newey Johnson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1948218291\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781948218290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e By Common Consent Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/13\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.21d","brand":"Melody Newey Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43982853406975,"sku":"9781948218290","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dbcc8dfa-d7ef-4691-b565-c3ff30c09a8a.jpg?v=1683263362","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/an-imperfect-roundness-melody-newey-johnson-9781948218290","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}