{"product_id":"immortal-medusa-barbara-louise-ungar-9780915380930","title":"Immortal Medusa","description":"Poetry. Women's Studies. Jewish Studies. Always original, intelligent, hilarious, Ungar serves us another chapter in the on- going saga of life-on- Earth. Her deft and inventive mixtures of science, family, history, pop-culture, philosophy, and art keep the reader swimming deeper and deeper into the human experience, amazed at the landmarks both familiar and surprising.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This poetry collection is like a bowl of fruit and cream: it's so delicious, and it all goes down so easily, that you forget how much nutrition is there.--\u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A very elegiac mood courses through these lines, enlivening them with wisdom. Like any great seeker, Ungar pursues the truth beneath surfaces available to the naked eye. Reading these poems, we are seized by the worlds she reveals. It is the feeling we call ravishment.--Greg Pardlo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ungar paints unforgettable images--water-spider shoes, sepia knickers and a shining white shirt, the near-endangered Waccamaw fatmucket and Ozark hellbender--that leave us 'chanting to the sky' then diving to see what we 'can retrieve \/ from the deep floor where \/ pearls are formed in secret.'--Meg Kearney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara Louise Ungar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0915380935\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780915380930\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Word Works\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/30\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/0001\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Best Indie Books\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2015 pg. 51","brand":"Barbara Louise Ungar","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120438374655,"sku":"9780915380930","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3817542d-59c9-4cff-ac85-1feba50eac8c.jpg?v=1687414313","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/immortal-medusa-barbara-louise-ungar-9780915380930","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}