{"product_id":"social-dance-carolyn-boll-9780998761015","title":"Social Dance: A Book of Ballroom Poetry","description":"Boll's words glide across the page like choreography, taking readers on a journey that is at times just good fun, and at other times, intensely personal. Her poems are a refreshing reminder to all that words are a dance, relationships are a dance, and life itself is a dance.\u003cbr\u003e -Lauren Warnecke, Dance Contributor to the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFilled with intense, musical rhythms and daring sound-play, this book incites ecstasy and gives the reader the sense that she is dancing. Open your heart to... and lean into Boll's \"delicious\/ succulence and luscious licentiousness.\" You will not be disappointed!\u003cbr\u003e-Ann Tweedy, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Body's Alphabet, \u003c\/i\u003e 2017 Bisexual Book Award in poetry \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Oh, how I love this exquisite volume of voluptuous, ecstatic poems! She opens the space of each page like the stage of a theatre where her poetry unfurls in a succession of lush and tender dances. She has invented a series of elegant compositional structures...that perfectly accommodates the eager rush and undulating sensuality of her language...\u003cbr\u003e-Peggy Baker, dancer\/choreographer, C.M., LL.D., D.Lit, O.Ont. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Evoking the clever playfulness of a contemporized Gertrude Stein, the poems deliver \"words of pleasure in endless \/ measure\" and an energy that gets us up \"doin' the two-step\".. \u003ci\u003eSocial Dance\u003c\/i\u003e astonishes with ingenuity, grace and dazzling language.\u003cbr\u003e-Cora Siré, author of \u003ci\u003eBehold Things Beautiful, The Other Oscar\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSigns of Subversive Innocents\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNuanced in its expressions of love and elegantly simple...\u003ci\u003eSocial Dance\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderfully paced play of words and image...Carolyn Boll will awaken in you the desire to dance cheek to cheek with your beloved.\u003cbr\u003e-Gabriel Dawe, visual artist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carolyn Boll\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 099876101X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780998761015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sally Jane Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/26\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.16d","brand":"Carolyn Boll","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120647270655,"sku":"9780998761015","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_70533157-4350-49c0-a552-6f737ee43854.jpg?v=1687415497","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/social-dance-carolyn-boll-9780998761015","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}