{"product_id":"lucky-witness-kathleen-lynch-9781421836263","title":"Lucky Witness","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne senses that Kathleen Lynch -- in her brilliant, sometimes devastating book -- intends her title to be read un-ironically. As in Ingmar Bergman films, the poems cast a light on various darknesses that in their exposures, their witnessing, are the essential cries and whispers of poetry. In \"Throes,\" she says, \"The saint flung himself \/ into a thorn bush to incur \/ wounds worthy of his joy.\" Lynch's poems have that kind of complexity, and seem to know \"We need a face \/ to express the hidden \/ face.\" When that face is found, as it often is in these poems, it contains a voice, which can make us smile as well as wince at life's absurdities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKathleen Lynch's first book, \u003cem\u003eHinge\u003c\/em\u003e, won The Black Zinnias Poetry Book Award. Her chapbooks include \u003cem\u003eHow to Build and Owl\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAlterations of Rising\u003c\/em\u003e, both in the Select Poets Series from Small Poetry Press; \u003cem\u003eNo Spring Chicken\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the White Eagle Coffee Store Press Chapbook Prize; and \u003cem\u003eKathleen Lynch Greatest Hits: 1985-2001\u003c\/em\u003e in the Pudding House Press Greatest Hits Series. Her poem, \"Abracadabra\", won a 2018 Pushcart Prize. Lynch won the 2019 Genosko Flash Fiction Award first prize. Kathleen lives in Sacramento, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kathleen Lynch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421836262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421836263\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Blue Light Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/30\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d","brand":"Kathleen Lynch","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44321436696831,"sku":"9781421836263","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d91b3681-4f52-47c5-a8c4-1d1fe46d3101.jpg?v=1696330887","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lucky-witness-kathleen-lynch-9781421836263","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}