{"product_id":"girlie-calendar-mary-meriam-9780692216729","title":"Girlie Calendar","description":"\u003cb\u003e* Selected for the 2016 American Library Association Over the Rainbow List\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSong is mysterious. It seems to arise when the separation between sophistication and simplicity has been submerged in deep water. Song is that ringing-out of the wrung heart whereby what is personal becomes what is universal-and so it is fitting that all the archetypal seasons in Mary Meriam's \u003ci\u003eGirlie Calendar\u003c\/i\u003e have their own specific songs to share, their own ardent delights. Yet these delights are hard-fought, because song is also that inspiring moment of transcendence so in evidence in the courage of these lines: \"A knife of pain may bend you over double, \/ but hover, swing from your trapeze, breathe.\" Mary Meriam's songs are thus both breath-taking and breath-giving. Indeed, there is a rigor of architecture in these poems, as well as in the construction of the book as a whole, that is exacting, deliberate, astonishingly disciplined-and yet surrendering to such songs, as a reader, seems as natural as breathing. \"Let steel become a sigh,\" she sings to herself in her month of August. Those five words rise and fall as an exquisitely fragile monument to all song. I would even go so far as to say that they are a powerful medicine for what ails us.\u003cbr\u003e-R. Nemo Hill, Author of \u003ci\u003eWhen Men Bow Down\u003c\/i\u003e and Publisher of EXOT Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Meriam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0692216723\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780692216729\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Headmistress Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/18\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d","brand":"Mary Meriam","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120065179903,"sku":"9780692216729","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_97043730-6806-4f76-9684-f6400713b6ff.jpg?v=1687412367","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/girlie-calendar-mary-meriam-9780692216729","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}