{"product_id":"mezzaluna-michele-leggott-9780819579072","title":"Mezzaluna: Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEnchanting and sustaining poems by the first Poet Laureate of New Zealand\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMezzaluna\u003c\/i\u003e gathers work from Michele Leggott's nine books of poetry. As reviewer David Eggleton writes: \"Leggott shows us that the ordinary is full of marvels which . . . stitched, flow together into sequences and episodes that in turn form an ongoing serial, or bricolage: a single poem, then, rejecting exactness, literalism, naturalism in favor of resonance, currents, patterns of ebb and flow.\" In complex lyrics, sampling thought and song, voice and vision, Leggott creates lush textured soundscapes. Her poetry covers a wide range of topics rich in details of her New Zealand life, full of history and family, lights and mirrors, the real and the surreal. She focuses on appearance and disappearance as modes of memory, familial until we lose sight of that horizon line and must settle instead for a series of intersecting arcs. Leggott writes with tenderness and courage about the paradoxes of losing her sight and remaking the world in words.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eon white you fall\u003cbr\u003einto line\u003cbr\u003eher voice fills\u003cbr\u003ethe ground\u003cbr\u003epotato cuts\u003cbr\u003e the sun\u003cbr\u003edries paints\u003cbr\u003e the deck prints\u003cbr\u003eshapes shadows \u003cbr\u003eof oranges\u003cbr\u003e green\u003cbr\u003e 'cyan and\u003cbr\u003e magenta'\u003cbr\u003e sail\u003cbr\u003e your picnic\u003cbr\u003esea\u003cbr\u003e into the eye\u003cbr\u003e land crimson\u003cbr\u003e lemons\u003cbr\u003e hand me\u003cbr\u003ethe moon\u003cbr\u003erisen rode\u003cbr\u003e rose ride\u003cbr\u003ewhite\u003cbr\u003e out to see\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michele Leggott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0819579076\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819579072\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 7.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Michele Leggott","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43979229626623,"sku":"9780819579072","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_651f9740-4050-4356-a2c7-16b675591187.jpg?v=1683244541","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mezzaluna-michele-leggott-9780819579072","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}