{"product_id":"azimuth-beatriz-albuquerque-9781937543747","title":"Azimuth: poems (Color Edition)","description":"\u003cb\u003eFULL-COLOR ILLUSTRATED EDITION \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewith art by Beatriz Abluquerque \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR AZIMUTH\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If there is a little extra light at the edge of seeing, it is surely captured by these diversiform universes. \u003ci\u003eAzimuth\u003c\/i\u003e is illumined and illuminated by its relationship to the art and philosophy of the Italian Renaissance; a keen chiaroscuro suffuses these poems, creating marvelous contrasts of celebration and sadness. 'A light diffused makes the darkness stronger, ' writes Ciavonne, and 'fire is brightest at the top of the tongue'.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e-D. A. Powell, poet, \u003ci\u003eUseless Landscape, or a Guide for Boys: poems\u003c\/i\u003e, and the poetry trilogy: \u003ci\u003eTea, Lunch and Cocktails\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Via poems that take place at the partial vantage point of Azimuth, Quadrant and Meridian, the poet makes camp in the foreign, where 'to recognize and to be a stranger' find shared roots. \u003ci\u003eAzimuth\u003c\/i\u003e takes direction from fire, which demonstrates 'how to go forward \/thinking of\/ burning as a direction...' Accompanied by theologians she loves but cannot believe, Ciavonne's urgent quest explores the physics of human separation, a separation, remarkably, which gives us insight to the condition of God, 'if god is an opening, if god is a divine withdrawal.'\"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e-Claudia Keelan, poet, \u003ci\u003eO, Heart: poems\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e Missing Her: poetry and prose\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"'She wears her best dress and she's hired' describes not a poet but a mourner, but maybe it is the poet, in Carol Ciavonne's new book \u003ci\u003eAzimuth.\u003c\/i\u003e The ways, the directions possible in language are the troubling engagements of this book in which a line might - for instance, 'Not speaking is foreign; the tongue is bronzed' - which is destined to stay with the reader, to nestle in the mind like a pet or a pest forever. The ways this book is beautiful are the same as the ways it is troubling. This is writing as a new necessity.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -Bin Ramke, editor, \u003ci\u003eThe Denver Quarterly, \u003c\/i\u003e and poet, \u003ci\u003eTheory of Mind: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Beatriz Albuquerque,Carol Ciavonne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1937543749\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781937543747\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Jaded Ibis Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/06\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30d","brand":"Beatriz Albuquerque","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48486396363007,"sku":"9781937543747","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3edbd594-1464-4c99-babc-bc5fad45931c.jpg?v=1778055264","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/azimuth-beatriz-albuquerque-9781937543747","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}