{"product_id":"glad-wilderness-geraldine-cannon-9781891386459","title":"Glad Wilderness","description":"In Glad Wilderness Geraldine Cannon has woven an Appalachian tapestry of voices and images that are somehow at once clear as a swimming hole and as suggestive as an impressionist painting: \"His skin develops Braille as he breathes me in.\" Her mode is not formal until the end of the series where she has written three triolets, of all things, that are three of the best triolets I have ever read. Completely unexpected, and perfectly delightful. \u003cbr\u003e Lewis Turco, Poet\/Scholar, author of The Book of Forms, 3rd ed. (University Press of New England, 2000) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Geraldine Cannon's many voices in this collection form a choir, each poem a soloist in turn, while the others hum and clap around it. In the virtuosic story-telling of her Southern personae, a world comes vibrantly into focus. In addition to her narrative gifts, Cannon gives us imagery that stuns with its originality and its rightness. Here is the marvelous close of the first poem in the book: \"We are left \/ with so many wrinkles \/ if we could spread our skin out, \/ we could glide.\"\u003cbr\u003e Susan Ludvigson, Poet, author of Escaping the House of Certainty: Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 2006) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Geraldine Cannon relies confidently on adroit observation and direct language unadorned by rarified reference or elaborate trope. She sees, she feels, she helps us home, to refresh ourselves with uncanny gladness in a wilderness of new experience. Time and again her poems lift us into the affecting and infectious realization of poetry's power to create \"Unmeasured Time\" and say to us, as her wise voice often does, \"I am as full of wonder now as you.\"\u003cbr\u003e Michael Heffernan, Poet, author of The Night Breeze off the Ocean: Poems (Eastern Washington University Press, 2005) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Geraldine Cannon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 189138645X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781891386459\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Plain View Press, LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.17d","brand":"Geraldine Cannon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44138656825599,"sku":"9781891386459","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8b0a0b90-b17e-498a-8d00-81ed16e3cccf.jpg?v=1687900856","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/glad-wilderness-geraldine-cannon-9781891386459","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}