{"product_id":"labor-lisa-desiro-9780999397138","title":"Labor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I have to keep looking; try to see more, speak more, turn away less,\" says Lisa DeSiro in her fine first book, Labor. And this is what her poems do: they keep their eyes peeled, their ears open, and their hearts receptive. (Boston street bustle comes vividly alive in many of these poems.) But receptivity demands a tolerance for paradox, and DeSiro's poems--in disarmingly simple, idiomatic language--plumb the secrets of the world's contradictions. \"Go ahead, enjoy this day\" begins a poem titled \"9\/11 Anniversary, Public Garden.\" At home with the prose poem as well as the tightly rhymed lyric, DeSiro distills memorable music from the most colloquial moments--\"We were all thumbs on our dumb phones\"--and offers readers a vibrant panoply of sights and sounds, captured and conveyed in her impressively taut writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-- Steven Cramer, author of \u003cem\u003eClangings\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGoodbye to the Orchard\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lisa Desiro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0999397133\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780999397138\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nixes Mate Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.15d","brand":"Lisa Desiro","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48435859685631,"sku":"9780999397138","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ec86fb7d-e5fe-4865-9af8-51210841a8b5.jpg?v=1777153187","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/labor-lisa-desiro-9780999397138","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}