{"product_id":"slow-fire-pamela-alexander-9781931337342","title":"Slow Fire","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eSlow Fire\u003c\/i\u003e use original and compelling language to create experiences so real that the reader can inhabit them. This poet can delight in a \"loitering\" saxophone or a twelfth-century stone prayer hut, but much of her attention--her \"eye\" of close observation and precise language--is tuned to the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a lifelong interest in ecology and outdoor experience from Maine to Arizona, Pamela Alexander incorporates specifics of desert and forest into her lines. Whatever the subject of the poem, from the death of a mother to marriage to real estate (James Merrill called her choice of subjects \"impeccably democratic\"), this is a book with an environmental consciousness and a liveliness of language that engages the reader on many levels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003ePamela Alexander\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three previous collections. Her first, \u003ci\u003e Navigable Waterways, \u003c\/i\u003e a Yale Younger Poets selection, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. After teaching for many years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she joined the faculty of Oberlin College, where she is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eFIELD\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. An avid outdoorswoman, Alexander often finds the beginnings of poems as she bikes, hikes, kayaks, and cross-country skis. She divides her time between Ohio and Ontario, Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pamela Alexander\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1931337349\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781931337342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ausable Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.47h x 5.52w x 0.33d","brand":"Pamela Alexander","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46372461347071,"sku":"9781931337342","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aea19360-f7eb-4b2d-9b7a-ca8f1aef45e7.jpg?v=1732726011","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/slow-fire-pamela-alexander-9781931337342","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}