{"product_id":"bone-flute-irene-adler-9781734496529","title":"Bone Flute: A Woman Speaks","description":"Inspired by Bishop and Dickinson, \u003cem\u003eBone Flute: A Woman Speaks\u003c\/em\u003e by Irene Adler gives equal voice to the unspeakable sorrows and wonders of being alive. Edited by award-winning poet Angela Narciso Torres, this posthumous collection provides a longitudinal poetic record of American life and womanhood echoing Linda Pastan, Mona Van Duyn, and Grace Paley.PRAISE: \"Reading \u003cem\u003eBone Flute\u003c\/em\u003e, we travel with the poet through the seasons of her life, moving through history, through memory, through geography, and yet with a powerful sense of immediacy. I feel certain that there are poems here . . . that will survive the way poems do, lodged like a tough plant in a crack in someone's heart.\" -from the foreword by Nan Cohen, author of \u003cem\u003eUnfinished City\u003c\/em\u003e\". . . Adler celebrates the small but profound joys that make any life a miracle in spite of suffering, 'black clouds fringed silver.'\"-Sally Ashton, author of \u003cem\u003eListening to Mars\u003c\/em\u003e\"Smooth seeming are the waters into which Irene Adler's words cleanly dive.\"-Cintia Santana, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Disordered Alphabet\u003c\/em\u003e\"Irene's small and sacred meditations reveal what the owls, birds, and beetles already know: life's 'wild velocity' lives in every 'quill, bone, and feather.'\"-Robin Ekiss, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Mansion of Happiness\u003c\/em\u003e\"Bone Flute is a wise testament to the pain and wonder of being human.\"-Peter Kline, author of \u003cem\u003eMirrorforms\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Irene Adler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1734496525\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781734496529\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Paloma Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/29\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 138\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32d","brand":"Irene Adler","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46907458158847,"sku":"9781734496529","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_eb8d79c0-b332-42db-b422-9a5f62daaac4.jpg?v=1748773390","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bone-flute-irene-adler-9781734496529","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}