{"product_id":"please-hold-muriel-nelson-9781645991779","title":"Please Hold","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003ePlease Hold\u003c\/em\u003e there's melody, jazzy dissonance, flashes of tonal change, freshness of sound and image. Consider \"hummingbirds\/ buzz like balloons' loose lips,\" and \"what if\/ from the ugliest mouth on the corner, love stuck\/out its bent lightning tongue?\" As old Bruce in \"Sonnet on Air\" says, \"only motion and cognition matter.\" \u003cem\u003ePlease Hold\u003c\/em\u003e is full of both, its music alive with the snicker of oboes, inspired puns, silvery thuds, cries and laughter, pain and disconcerting beauty. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Patricia Corbus, winner of the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2015 Off the Grid Poetry prize for \u003cem\u003eFinestra's Window\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlease Hold\u003c\/em\u003e's scintillant wit and virtuoso imagination enliven and mourn pandemic's hermitage, its \"slow kind of rain.\" When \"you've gone a bit crazy...sequestered,\" \"touch and go\" have lost their meanings, when fear \"thumbs glissandos\/up your bone xylophone,\" gargoyles grow eloquent, God \"contours love with dark,\" and truth produces its green heresies: \"When we fall sick, the teeter totters, and weeds inherit the earth.\" As rumors and lies surround us, these eclectic, ethical poems push back-\"it's a shady business, so here come the pines.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Eleanor Wilner, winner of the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Frost Medal for lifetime achievement\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Muriel Nelson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1645991776\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781645991779\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Encircle Publications, LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/21\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.10d","brand":"Muriel Nelson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44127650185471,"sku":"9781645991779","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8e0c6369-7813-4d5c-8b25-665ed30488c9.jpg?v=1687454458","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/please-hold-muriel-nelson-9781645991779","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}