{"product_id":"pastoral-habits-george-drew-9781680030792","title":"Pastoral Habits: Poems","description":"Just as an orchard grower, when harvesting its fruit, discards the tart, the bitter, the overripe, and the stunted, so, too, any poet tries to judiciously rejected less-than-sterling poems when assembling his Selected. \u003ci\u003ePastoral Habits\u003c\/i\u003e is a Selected of carefully chosen poems from fifty years and five volumes of poetic harvests. If \"pastoral\" connotes good shepherding, or good harvesting, then George Drew's collection with, like various varieties of fruit, includes poems about Michelangelo, Physics, Russia, all things American and the natural world, will resonate for those who value the worlds of poetry, from lyric to dramatic to narrative, and whether as background or central, the pastoral. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Few books of poetry as good as\u003ci\u003e Pastoral Habits\u003c\/i\u003e will come out this year, perhaps none better.\"--\u003cb\u003eX. J. Kennedy\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE PIETﾀ\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Mother, have you looked on this masterpiece? \u003cbr\u003e Seen how you hold me as you did when I \u003cbr\u003e was but a child? Here joy has been \u003cbr\u003e exiled, and sorrow set upon the throne. \u003cbr\u003e You will not see it on your perfect brow \u003cbr\u003e draped by its kerchief. Nor on your firm chin, \u003cbr\u003e nor in your inward-looking marble eyes, \u003cbr\u003e nor even in my horror-riddled shape \u003cbr\u003e draped like a smock across your lap. \u003cbr\u003e Now do you see it? There--in your left hand: \u003cbr\u003e the fingers splayed like broken wings, \u003cbr\u003e the deeply chiseled lifeline, and the blood, \u003cbr\u003e or shadow, smudging palm and fingertips. \u003cbr\u003e Here, mother, piety and pity are the same.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e George Drew\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1680030795\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781680030792\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas Review Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d","brand":"George Drew","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44057074335999,"sku":"9781680030792","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9bb4f18b-8634-4f82-87fc-6bc688d2c033.jpg?v=1685044882","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pastoral-habits-george-drew-9781680030792","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}