{"product_id":"night-halves-christine-marshall-9781957062310","title":"Night Halves","description":"\u003cp\u003eChristine Marshall's collection is a winner of the Dryden-Vreeland Prize from Gunpowder Press. \"'Joy is seldom pure' we're told in \u003cem\u003eNight Halves'\u003c\/em\u003e very first poem, but reading this book is pure joy, even though it puts us face-to- face with the kinds of difficulties that can make a person describe herself as 'a glass box\/slipping from the shelf.' There is childbirth (\"Blind. Headlong\"), the brain fog of brand-new motherhood (\"There, there now. \/ Not a cloud in sight- \/ or is it all-cloud? \/ Never mind.\"), watching an aging parent disintegrate (\"His teeth have turned so brittle, now \/ that night's unrolled its black tongue\/in his mouth\"), and the speaker's own precarious health (\"Pretend I can \/ know whether I'm treading the past\/or holding the future's hand\"). These poems, born of acute honesty and deep observation, abound in exquisite descriptions and understated profundities, always keeping us aware that \"The world is an equation, \/the sky too slim to hold us all.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Jacqueline Osherow, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Author of \u003cem\u003eMy Lookalike at the Krishna Temple: Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rendered with an artist's eye, creating a powerful collection of lyrical meditations testing out what pain and grief will hold, the poet always on the edge of a 'sense of meaning \/ just beyond the field where I stand \/ with my boy.' Lovely. \" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e-\u003c\/em\u003eGlenn Freeman, Author of \u003cem\u003eDrinking with O'Hara\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christine Marshall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1957062312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781957062310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gunpowder Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\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 0.25d","brand":"Christine Marshall","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852986036479,"sku":"9781957062310","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/night-halves-christine-marshall-9781957062310","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}