{"product_id":"cup-of-home-patricia-barnes-9781950462421","title":"Cup of Home","description":"Pat Barnes' delightful debut collection opens with \u003ci\u003eI write slippery words, ruffle-edged, fern-fringed . . . I want words that terrify - saw-toothed, eerie, galumphing in the dark, words that taste like baklava and are just as fattening.\u003c\/i\u003e And she delivers. Her poems convey earned wisdom, not only of the heart, but humanity itself. In \"It is Love \u003ci\u003e in Absencia, \u003c\/i\u003e a succinct gem about profound loss she writes \u003ci\u003eI smell his scent on a stranger and look for some new pain to save me from drowning in the old. \u003c\/i\u003eFrom \"Syrian Ashes,\" \u003ci\u003eThe grandmothers' language was lies, \/ but all the children spoke cinnamon. \u003c\/i\u003e Many of her poems are graced with humor and wit but not without insightful subtext. She personifies her childhood house in conversation, \u003ci\u003eThe house said, I recognize your footsteps.\/ I said, you used to be bigger. \u003c\/i\u003eIn another poem she gifts an apathetic niece with a bottle of curiosity. \u003ci\u003e I paid full price. \u003c\/i\u003e Barnes collages a delightful quilt of art, music, family, food with a keen eye, traveling to places foreign and familiar. Cup of Home is a poetry collection you'll want to curl up with again and again.\u003cp\u003eDiane DeCillis, Strings Attached\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith both humor and gravitas, Pat Barnes has mastered a multitude of poetic forms and technique while crafting an assemblage of life experiences. The poems in this collection are alive in observation. From shoelaces to Tarzan, groundhogs to fish funerals, cruise ships to the\u003ci\u003e quiet moments of true loss, \u003c\/i\u003e this is a collection that reads like a collage, shaped together with color and texture, like the\u003ci\u003e red sari silk around her sorrows, music Singin' the Fat Blues, \u003c\/i\u003e \u0026amp; images, yet focusing on the grace of the every-day. Barnes loves language, loves word-play \u0026amp; the music of language. I've not read poetry so proficient in the marriage of senses, where curiosity\u003ci\u003e smelled like a promise, \u003c\/i\u003eor one can \u003ci\u003enibble a Columbian rain forest. \u003c\/i\u003eThis collection is a work of art. So much invention here. So much fun.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoy Gaines-Friedler, 2018 Forward Review Book Award Finalist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePat Barnes writes with clarity and wit of the pleasures and pathos at the core of family life. Her poems speak with tenderness of her beloveds but also with humor and a sense of whimsy. Barnes gives us the gift of balance - sadness and joy - in these deeply felt and accomplished poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Jo Firth-Gillett, Soluble Fish\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrab Orchard Series in Poetry, First Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patricia Barnes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1950462420\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781950462421\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelsay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/05\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\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 0.25d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patricia Barnes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43941168120063,"sku":"9781950462421","price":18.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_4a29d237-09dc-44cc-b028-64babcb65648.jpg?v=1681451314","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cup-of-home-patricia-barnes-9781950462421","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}