{"product_id":"false-spring-gloria-monaghan-9781950437078","title":"False Spring: Poems","description":"Following in the footprints of Amy Clampitt and Robert Creeley - two of our greatest contemporary naturalist poets - Gloria Monaghan offers this exquisite collection. But, like all other prints left on a nature trail, her footprints are distinctly her own - whether tender, rhapsodic, wistful or sardonic. This trail begins in a cemetery where flowers are left to flourish in the water of tears. It then moves naturally to memories of the poet's father, siblings, a former love, and her children. In all of these poems - and in the others offered here - the words stun in their Dickinsonian simplicity and beauty. \"The smell of my daughter's hair breaks my heart.\"Even when she is describing a grim crime scene (\"The police search the reeds and the water ... in the hope of finding a body\"), she returns and finds\/offers solace in the natural world (\"Did your body smell like an ocean?\").As befits good poetry, each poem here jars, prods, provokes, disturbs - even in a love poem - often with a sly sense of humor (\"Your smell escapes me\") or bitter regret (\"The daylight \/ never ceases to astonish \/ ... as if that's all we need\").The richly textured images leave the reader glad to have taken the trek. It is a journey to which the lucky reader will return time and again, each time discovering new growth. - Neil Silberblatt, Founder\/Director, Voices of Poetry; Author, Past Imperfect (Nixes Mate Books, 2018), nominated for Mass. Book Award in Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gloria Monaghan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1950437078\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781950437078\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Adelaide Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/18\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d","brand":"Gloria Monaghan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44616723661055,"sku":"9781950437078","price":19.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_18b0539c-af64-4fbf-ba56-b986d2a5fde9.jpg?v=1703021946","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/false-spring-gloria-monaghan-9781950437078","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}