{"product_id":"joyful-annotations-to-the-world-carol-sadtler-9781639807581","title":"Joyful Annotations to the World Outside","description":"In \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoyful Annotations to the World Outside, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e everywhere is atmosphere and signs, each poem a field deep and human. Daughter, partner, mother, Carol Sadtler is a grateful, compassionate poet who knows you can't hold anything for long. Still, her poetry opens out, always more space for more life, \"fresh images in new frames - some garden always growing.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eChris Solís Green\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author and Distinguished Writer in Residence at DePaul University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn today's mood of swagger and slash, Carol Sadtler's clear-eyed reports from the field present a life of deep attention to her cherished clan and the living world. With an unfussy style, she achieves an almost stoic ecstasy as the narrator thrills to the flash of a red wing, the green scent of crushed herbs, the candlelight gleam on the Black Christ. Water figures not only as a healing force for sick loved ones and withering nature, but also as a rhythmic power far older and stronger than human life. The book's quiet focus on walking, swimming, and close observation lifts the reader above our fractured times into the mystery of a realm beyond knowing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrice Boyer Claeys\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author, \u003ci\u003eLovely Daughter of the Shattering\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Machinery of Grace\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoyful Annotations to the World Outside, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e Carol Sadtler offers a book of wise and quiet beauty. The book straddles the fine line between lament and celebration, between fear and joy, a paradox theologians often call \"ripeness.\" Her anchor is nature herself - doves and crows, mollusks and dogs, hickories and Black-eyed Susans - as the narrator embraces and transcends the broken and the contradictory. From the poem in which a 10-year-old girl feels her power for the first time as she pedals through summer fields, to the observations of a sister in her younger sister's final days, this poet is after truth and meaning, which \"we may or may not be \/ able to bear to know.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eRalph Hamilton\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, Board Chair and former Editor of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eRHINO\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carol Sadtler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1639807586\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639807581\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelsay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 46\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.10d","brand":"Carol Sadtler","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440523096319,"sku":"9781639807581","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9a06be68-2591-4cb3-aa18-984611a82bb0.jpg?v=1777182997","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/joyful-annotations-to-the-world-carol-sadtler-9781639807581","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}