{"product_id":"ripenings-jacqueline-kudler-9781939639356","title":"Ripenings: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003ePart American history, part poetic memoir, part multifaceted and lyrical study of tender human life, Jacqueline Kudler's \u003cem\u003eRipenings\u003c\/em\u003e is a trajectory, a richly detailed arco iris of ancestors, intimate family, lifelong loves, inevitable loss. \"Revelation begins in attention,\" the poet writes, and whether that attention manifests here in paeans to New York, to life in Northern California's landscape, or to the people who have accompanied her through her life, love is what shines through these poems, these ripenings-this book is a gift of love laid at our feet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer third (and final) collection of her poetry, Ripenings follows this award-winning poet's acclaimed volumes, \u003cem\u003eThe Sacred Precinct \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eEasing into Dark\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In Ripenings, Jacqueline Kudler's rich imagery and love of language celebrate the people and places that have inhabited her world. Nature commands a major presence in these pages: its bliss and blight, how it reaches out to us, offering a place for healing to occur. Death is also here, in poems limning the long California drought or addressing now-dead long-time friends and family members. Kudler writes, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat more can anyone ask but\u003cbr\u003ethat Death, the ever-dependable\u003cbr\u003efriend, will know I'm ready before\u003cbr\u003eI do, will steal into my room while\u003cbr\u003eI'm deep in dreams and lay his\u003cbr\u003eglacial gift at my feet, so gently, so\u003cbr\u003etenderly, that I'll never wake at all.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese poems are brilliantly alive!\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e -Lily Iona MacKenzie, author of \u003cem\u003eCalifornia Dreaming\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jacqueline Kudler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1939639352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781939639356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stillpoint Digital Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d","brand":"Jacqueline Kudler","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440151933183,"sku":"9781939639356","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fe7f8b2e-9a04-4484-80d8-35e6463bec7c.jpg?v=1777180539","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ripenings-jacqueline-kudler-9781939639356","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}