{"product_id":"perennial-fall-maggie-dietz-9780226148502","title":"Perennial Fall","description":"At the heart of this unusually accomplished and affecting first book of poetry is the idea of the hinge--the point of connection, of openings and closings. Maggie Dietz situates herself in the liminal present, bringing together past and future, dream and waking, death and life. Formally exact, rigorous, and tough, these poems accept no easy answers or equations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDietz creates a world alive with detail and populated with the everyday and strange: amusement-park horses named Virgil and Sisyphus, squirrels hanging over tree branches \"like fish.\" By turns humorous and pained, direct and mysterious, elegiac and elegant, the poems trace for us the journey and persistence of the spirit toward and through its \"perennial fall\"--both the season and the human condition. Cumulatively, the work moves toward a fragile transcendence, surrendering to difficulty, splendor, and strangeness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003ePerennial Fall\u003c\/i\u003e, distinct, hard-edged images create a haunting counter-play of distortion, troubled insight or menace. The simultaneous clarity and shadow has the quality of a dream that can be neither forgotten nor settled. This is a spectacular debut and more than that--a wonderful book.\"--Robert Pinsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maggie Dietz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226148505\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226148502\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 6.70w x 0.22d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/03\/2006 pg. 42","brand":"Maggie Dietz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913422733567,"sku":"9780226148502","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_a1e0bd63-9c4d-47f5-9279-4d92419cf123.jpg?v=1680620325","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/perennial-fall-maggie-dietz-9780226148502","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}