{"product_id":"deep-gossip-sidney-wade-9781421437873","title":"Deep Gossip: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThroughout her seven critically acclaimed collections, Sidney Wade has established herself as a poet with a serious but light touch, capable of the clarity and inventiveness it takes to work a problem to both pleasure and resolution. Playing with and challenging form in all directions, the 27 new and 96 selected poems in \u003cem\u003eDeep Gossip\u003c\/em\u003e bristle with a sly wit that trips and delights the reader. Inspired by landscape, language, music, and living things, as well as the occasional bout of political outrage, \u003cem\u003eDeep Gossip\u003c\/em\u003e is a smart collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Other Books by Sidney Wade\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe quick, closely observed poems in Sidney Wade's beguiling \u003cem\u003eBird Book\u003c\/em\u003e move from page to page like their subjects--in flight, on air, a murmuration sweeping across the horizon.--William Souder\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSidney Wade's linguistic and philosophical turns in \u003cem\u003eBird Book\u003c\/em\u003e confirm that she is both the supreme heir to Wallace Stevens and one of the most original poets in the language.--Randall Mann\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a beautiful, wise, and timely collection.--Daniel Anderson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs impressive and thrillingly exact as these poems are concerning matters ornithological, it is the exquisite music --'earth-sprung, bright, and resonant'--of Wade's radically short line that so enchants me, the free play of interlinear rhyme, phonemic harmonies, and small bursts of metrical rhythms that yield more vitality and delight than any gathering of poems I have encountered in a very long time.--B. H. Fairchild\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer poems [are] . . . a particular and splendid instance of what Hopkins meant by 'poetry proper, the language of inspiration.' --Richard Howard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sidney Wade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421437872\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421437873\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.62d","brand":"Sidney Wade","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43983561195775,"sku":"9781421437873","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4824dcfe-ebe5-4937-8d97-c5a897b0a48a.jpg?v=1683267380","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/deep-gossip-sidney-wade-9781421437873","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}