{"product_id":"groaning-and-singing-diane-kistner-9781952593222","title":"Groaning and Singing","description":"\u003ci\u003eOur memory is the only help that is left to them.\u003c\/i\u003e Theodor Adorno's words, the epigraph of Judy Kronenfeld's poem, \"Saving the Dead,\" epitomize a central theme of her elegiac, yet life-affirming collection that would prevent memory from drifting \"into the dilating voids of space.\" \u003ci\u003eGroaning and Singing\u003c\/i\u003e invokes ancestors known and unknown and evokes the stories of parents and wider family in the particularity that demonstrates the truths and gifts of their lives. It evokes communities: the urban lonely, the women, \"blotched \/ and spotted, with our walkers \/ and canes,\" gathered in \"Shearly Beloved,\" even the sufferers of the \"incandescently unimaginable\" pain of history-violence, oppression, disease. But also present is the \u003ci\u003enow\u003c\/i\u003e of gratefulness: for \"morning, morning! \/ commonplace and miraculous,\" for sudden joy, \"like dripping fistfuls of sequin confetti \/ flung into the air and hanging for a moment \/ crackling like fireworks.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Diane Kistner, Judy Kronenfeld\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1952593220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781952593222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Futurecycle Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/07\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d","brand":"Diane Kistner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44128343523583,"sku":"9781952593222","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_319a76ea-836a-429a-964e-10dd7e23ef99.jpg?v=1687458229","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/groaning-and-singing-diane-kistner-9781952593222","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}