{"product_id":"leave-it-behind-diane-kistner-9780983998501","title":"Leave It Behind","description":"LEAVE IT BEHIND expresses the paradoxical wish of every poet, seeking to leave behind-in both senses of that phrase-the language trace of her mind and heart. And what a fine first book Emily Raabe has left behind: vivid and strange, haunted by dreamed animals, alive with the landscapes and losses of her Vermont childhood. Raabe's poetry seeks \"something like love\/ in that it is the absence\/ of distance\"-and yet it faces both absence and distance with unflinching imagination, intelligence and grace. -Dan Chiasson, author of WHERE'S THE MOON, THERE'S THE MOONThe poems in Emily Raabe's first collection, LEAVE IT BEHIND, are distinct and imaginative. Often with a surreal edge, they have the intensity and grip of dream imagery and dream narrative: \"My best dream\/ goes like this: two fields\/ cut by a thin line of trees.\/ In the dream I'm at the line\/ when the storm comes in.\" And so the reader is immediately drawn into the poem with a sense of suspense in which the familiar has a strange and ominous aura. Raabe is able to find her identity in correlations between herself and the outer world as in \"Self-Portrait of a House\": \"If I were a house, I'd be a little\/ green house, with peeling paint\/ and an Ali Baba stairway\/ to my swinging green screen door,\" and so she invites her reader into a world of innuendo. Her poems possess an engaging freshness, and her debut as a new poet is to be welcomed. -Robert Pack, author of LAUGHTER BEFORE SLEEP\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Diane Kistner,Emily Raabe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0983998507\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780983998501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Futurecycle Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/25\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.17d","brand":"Diane Kistner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48441470353663,"sku":"9780983998501","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_39b07ad5-1ebe-4a12-b1e9-6fe9dd4569d5.jpg?v=1777191115","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/leave-it-behind-diane-kistner-9780983998501","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}