{"product_id":"distant-music-joan-annsfire-9780692316092","title":"Distant Music","description":"The dance of light and shadow unfolds across each and every page of Joan Annsfire's \u003ci\u003eDistant Music.\u003c\/i\u003e Life and death, love and loss, and the shifting patterns of time and memory, hope and regret, all swell, surge and release as steps are taken, hands are held, a face is stroked, a life is lived and examined, and a poet is born again and again, poem by poem, word by word. The movement of a revolution. The revolution of a world. A world within. And without. \u003ci\u003eDistant Music\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling and moving collection of poems that draws us forward from beginning to end. And beginning again.\u003cbr\u003e-Carolyn Boll, poet\/writer\/dancer \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDistant Music\u003c\/i\u003e is no \"carnival of disorder...seducing with a wild and discordant song.\" There is order to these poems. They become a history, a feral memoir, the travel diary of a revolutionary. A travelogue navigating the white-waters of time through the sharp hazards of health and family and love. These are companionable poems (though sometime reckless companions) that invite you to swim naked or leap from bridges. They sing of geography's immutability; memory's flexibility and betrayals of the body; but ultimately these poems sing of survival. While they lay flowers at the side of the road for peoples and things that didn't survive the journey, these are poems of passionate endurance.\u003cbr\u003e-G.L. Morrison, author of \u003ci\u003eChiaroscuro Kisses\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eDistant Music\u003c\/i\u003e is full of visceral, surprising images. If you're brave enough to stay the course, Joan Annsfire will take you \"joyriding on the rushing rapids,\" through the \"searing pain\" of childhood and a stigmatized youth, through the speaker's mother's illness and death from cancer and then her own diagnosis and recovery, finally to land in \"an older body, baggy, stretched and \/ soft as a favorite pair of flannel pajamas . . .\" Annsfire's is a world where \"intense, immeasurable hunger\" is an \"elusive prize\" in pursuit of which one must \"scour the earth.\" The reader who scours these pages will be enriched by Annsfire's wisdom, her skilled use of metaphor and language, and her jarring honesty.\u003cbr\u003e-Ann Tweedy, author of \u003ci\u003eWhite Out\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBeleaguered Oases\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eDistant Music, \u003c\/i\u003e Joan Annsfire's poems dance with delicate intimacy and shout their angry love. A long-awaited collection from the widely published, Berkeley poet, \u003ci\u003eDistant Music\u003c\/i\u003e is filled with poems to savor and enjoy.\u003cbr\u003e-Julie R. Enszer, author of \u003ci\u003eSisterhood, \u003c\/i\u003e editor\/publisher of \u003ci\u003eSinister Wisdom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joan Annsfire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0692316094\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780692316092\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Headmistress Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/24\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 46\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.10d","brand":"Joan Annsfire","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48435646857471,"sku":"9780692316092","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e78e16c9-4bc5-4d8f-8803-c080778a10df.jpg?v=1777151760","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/distant-music-joan-annsfire-9780692316092","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}