{"product_id":"carnaval-susan-l-miller-9781639822393","title":"Carnaval","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when expectations about how life will unfold-rather traditional ones, as it happens-are disrupted by a restless soul that insists on continually re-writing the script?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCarnaval \u003c\/em\u003efollows a young woman as she moves away from the life she once imagined into one shaped by travel, art, and mystery. Many of the poems gathered here were inspired by regular trips to Mexico while others recall her childhood, especially working in the garden with her father. The streets and markets of Mexican cities, Vermeer's \u003cem\u003eWoman Holding a Balance\u003c\/em\u003e, Zapotec weavings, the films of Werner Herzog, the ritual sacrifice of goats in Oaxaca, tequila and sangrita, orchids, Frida Kahlo's \u003cem\u003eNaturaleza Muerta\u003c\/em\u003e, and a rural vegetable garden gather here, reflecting a vision of life that is at once sensuous, searching, and unsettled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving fluidly between inherited form and contemporary lyric, Susan L. Miller's poems bring formal intelligence to bear on questions of faith, desire, and the sources of true freedom. She brings together the vivid, the hidden, the sacred, and the profane, weaving music and language into a \u003cem\u003etilma \u003c\/em\u003eetched with the image of the Empress of the Americas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoundtracked by Celia Cruz, Edith Piaf, Nick Drake, Chavela Vargas, Wilco, Enrico Caruso, Frank Sinatra, and Spanish Marian hymns, and inspired by the photographs of Graciela Iturbide, this collection conjures the joy and the melancholy-the sacramental and the anarchic-spirit that lies at the heart of \u003cem\u003ecarnaval\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan L. Miller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1639822399\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639822393\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Slant Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d","brand":"Susan L. Miller","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174549922047,"sku":"9781639822393","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/carnaval-susan-l-miller-9781639822393","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}