{"product_id":"small-pleasures-nikia-leopold-9781886361263","title":"Small Pleasures","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"These small pleasures of intelligent thoughtful, and thought-provoking poems will warm the reader's heart.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e -Sandra Costich\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"An old song tells us that \"Little things mean a lot,\" and rarely has this been as true as it is in \u003cem\u003eSmall Pleasures, \u003c\/em\u003eNikia Leopold's bittersweet engagements with a glorious and mortal world. The title poem describes \"Pleasures with the heft of tinsel, \/ so small they're irreducible.\" Also irreducible are these sharply observed, precisely crafted poems that contain, and provoke, depths of feeling.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e -Michael Palma\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"If you want to be moved, read these poems.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e -Julia Wendell\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Niki Leopold is an exquisite receiver-of sensory news, complex emotions, hints of meaning. Her poems are passionate, delicate, fierce, brave.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e -Mary Azrael\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The sparse, finely made poems in Niki Leopold's \u003cem\u003eSmall Pleasures \u003c\/em\u003epossess the intricacy of snowflakes, each crystalline portrait revealing the wonder of existence encountered in an ordinary moment.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e -Pauline Uchmanowicz\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNiki Leopold is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars in Poetry, and has a Ph.D. in Art History, also from Hopkins. Her poems have appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe American Scholar, Commonweal, Poetry East\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePoetry\u003c\/em\u003e. Finishing Line Press published her chapbook, \u003cem\u003eDark Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e. Her children's book, \u003cem\u003eAdam's Crayons\u003c\/em\u003e, is out from Galileo Press. She lives with her husband in Ruxton, Maryland.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nikia Leopold\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1886361266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781886361263\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Blue Light Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/24\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 36\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.09d","brand":"Nikia Leopold","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44127142871295,"sku":"9781886361263","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_289d11ec-7283-4b9d-9542-17f90a642042.jpg?v=1687452062","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/small-pleasures-nikia-leopold-9781886361263","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}