{"product_id":"dormant-harriet-ribot-9798888383797","title":"Dormant","description":"In \u003cem\u003eDormant\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eHarriet Ribot\u003c\/strong\u003e's deeply honest first book of poetry, the reader is invited to share a writer's late life self-discovery. With children long ago raised and husband gone, Ribot doesn't over-romanticize her lived experience. \"When your brain\/has lain\/dormant\/what torment\/to waken this thing\" she tells us in the title poem. In another she writes, \"Patience is time spread thin over peaks of frustration\/and mounds of buried dreams, still visible\/as one looks back over many years.\" A deep and playful affection for language lace together love, loss and painful awakening throughout this lovely book.\u003cstrong\u003e -Roy Nathanson\u003c\/strong\u003e is author of \u003cem\u003eSubway Moon, \u003c\/em\u003e and teaches music at the NYU Gallatin School\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I write to share\" writes \u003cstrong\u003eHarriet Ribot\u003c\/strong\u003e in her new book of poems, \u003cem\u003e Dormant.\u003c\/em\u003e Words tumble gently down the page. An occasional rhyme gives a boost. But the poems always land, gently, in the heart. Maybe, as \"The Little Imp\" says, \"The whole world has a common bond of loneliness.\" Maybe, as in \"The Net,\" There are \"structures\/holding us together in delicate balance.\" In this \"keep-moving world\" where we \"drink from the fountain of kiss,\" Harriet reminds us that when you are on \"the corner of somewhere to someplace else\" that \"life's what you choose-not what you've found.\" \"Loosen up...\" she urges, \"live it up...show love to someone else!\" Reader, follow the advice in these poems, and join with our Poet, saying \"Having loved, I can face the future.\"\u003cstrong\u003e -Bob Holman\u003c\/strong\u003e, activist, poet and filmmaker, is author of 17 volumes of poetry, most recently  \u003cem\u003e(Un)spoken\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLife Poem\u003c\/em\u003e, is founder of the Bowery Poetry Club and host of Language Matters\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harriet Ribot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8888383794\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798888383797\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Finishing Line Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 70\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d","brand":"Harriet Ribot","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44522313613567,"sku":"9798888383797","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_99a48f5f-aa6f-4aba-9aa3-7761a5374829.jpg?v=1700156637","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dormant-harriet-ribot-9798888383797","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}