{"product_id":"orphic-paris-henri-cole-9781681372181","title":"Orphic Paris","description":"\u003cb\u003eA poetic portrait of Paris that combines prose poetry, diary, and memoir by award-winning writer and poet Henri Cole. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHenri Cole's \u003ci\u003eOrphic Paris\u003c\/i\u003e combines autobiography, diary, essay, and poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop, Cole, an award-winning American poet, explores with fresh and penetrating insight the nature of friendship and family, poetry and solitude, the self and freedom. Cole writes of Paris, \"For a time, I lived here, where the call of life is so strong. My soul was colored by it. Instead of worshiping a creator or man, I cared fully for myself, and felt no guilt and confessed nothing, and in this place I wrote, I was nourished, and I grew.\" Written under the tutelary spirit of Orpheus--mystic, oracular, entrancing--\u003ci\u003eOrphic Paris \u003c\/i\u003eis an intimate Paris journal and a literary commonplace book that is a touching, original, brilliant account of the city and of the artists, writers, and luminaries, including Cole himself, who have been moved by it to create.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Henri Cole\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1681372185\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681372181\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.70w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/29\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2018","brand":"Henri Cole","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43984854417663,"sku":"9781681372181","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bc83043b-2f42-45f6-b2c9-9a86365c457e.jpg?v=1683274503","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/orphic-paris-henri-cole-9781681372181","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}