{"product_id":"announcements-from-the-planetarium-judith-arcana-9781945824074","title":"Announcements from the Planetarium","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Dear Judith Arcana\u003cbr\u003e Not only do I like your book, I love it. Could there ever be a collection more endearing? Great wit, music, and pacing. Vivid passionate hungers, all stitched through the nubby fabric of aging with gorgeous shining threads. We can wrap ourselves right up in these poems for courage and verve.\u003cbr\u003eSincerely yours, Naomi Shihab Nye\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnnouncements from the Planetarium\u003c\/i\u003e examines aging and changing, wisdom and memory, and includes poems from Arcana's Mixtape Series and her Speculative Music Theory quartet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording to Judith Vollmer, \"Judith Arcana's poems [are] both familiar and refreshingly strange .... jagged elegies on 'time available' and 'the short version, ' dazzling crows, lonely streets, and mournful seers, with a hyper-realist eye on the past. Wisdom-riffs earned (wryly) 'perhaps as compensation' counterpoint her portraits of loss: of land, water, and the 'grandmothers [who]\/could move like flowers' yet who, \"When we came here, [...] would not come.\" And then: she slips away to an urgent world of 'wind, shining like the flash inside\/my skull-' [to] revere and celebrate freedom ....\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Judith Arcana\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1945824077\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781945824074\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Flowstone Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/23\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.21d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Judith Arcana","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47474298880255,"sku":"9781945824074","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a7e28724-0d8d-46c4-8983-ee40d2721694.jpg?v=1762315978","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/announcements-from-the-planetarium-judith-arcana-9781945824074","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}