{"product_id":"love-song-ann-chinnis-9798901469798","title":"Love Song: Port \u0026 Starboard","description":"\u003cp\u003eI am truly, amazingly for once, speechless. Not because I'm \"older than Hippocrates,\" or a blue heron just landed on my morning dock, and certainly not because \"it's 5 a.m. in the ER, fluorescent lights buzzing.\" No, I am because I just finished reading Ann Chinnis's \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove Song: Port \u0026amp; Starboard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and am overwhelmed by the beauty of such profound compassion, the high exalted music of a prophet soul praising \"the soft, brown bruise. . . of living.\" I don't fish or boat and am certainly not an ER doctor committed to an endless line of \"drenched\" emergencies, though now I know what all this feels like. Now I too am wrapped \"bashful\" in saving lives, and know what love feels like from the deep inside. Now I too want to \"grab a handful of mane and fling\" myself \"onto destiny's haunches.\" This is poetry unlike anyone else's, songs that praise the living and the dead. Believe me, you too will be speechless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilip Schultz\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eFailure\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand Pulitzer Prize winner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere but for the grace, one feels, as there with grace, when reading these tactile, heart-breaking poems that embrace the very heart of the human condition. Ann Chinnis strikes a profound balance - more a braiding - of solace and solitude out on the waters of forgiveness, with no small portion of soul-wrenching ashore. One can only wish to have had Ann Chinnis as one's physician; but the recompence is to have entry into her gorgeous poems. These are poems in full sail, with a poet of extraordinary powers at the tiller. Are they lyrics disguised as narratives, or narratives disguised as lyrics? The answer, most engagingly, is yes. What a balancing act, and what joy to have this gorgeous book in one's hands!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeffrey Levine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, artistic director and publisher, Tupelo Press\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ann Chinnis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798901469798\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\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d","brand":"Ann Chinnis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48659926810879,"sku":"9798901469798","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/love-song-ann-chinnis-9798901469798","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}