{"product_id":"spill-some-new-brightness-francine-marie-tolf-9781936671809","title":"Spill Some New Brightness: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrancine Marie Tolf's poetry is like the leaves she describes in one of her poems: \"green fire in morning sun.\" \u003cem\u003eSpill Some New Brightness\u003c\/em\u003e opens in a place where grief and gratitude walk hand in hand: \"Sometimes something wonderful occurs, \/ a sister you thought exotic but brittle \/ becomes your best friend, maybe through \/ mysterious and troubling circumstances. Maybe \/ she has a breakdown. Speaks with demons. \/ Walks through bright and terrible fields.\" (\"Sometimes\").\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this spiritual gathering of pain, love, beauty, and injustices, devastating moments surface: \"I thought of that immigrant woman clutching her child \/ as ice-black water rose, the merciless moment \/ she had to breathe ocean into her lungs \/ and I said out loud, Where were You? \/ How could You let this happen? \/ No answer except diamonds sparkling on lake water.\" (\"Hidden Beach\").\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe spend time with women, sisters, mothers, people on the bus and in the grocery store, assisted living patients, children, trees, tiger lilies, \"mallard ducks swimming in melted snow puddles.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTolf gives us the beauty of ordinary but dazzling moments: \"Blinding white, the sudden wings beat \/ in front of my windshield, as if \/ the gull had dropped from a horizon \/ of sapphire sea and chalk-bright cliff \/ instead of this dreary March sky \/ hanging low over a parking lot edged \/ with a Dollar Tree, a Taco Bell, \/ black-crusted snow.\" (\"Transfiguration in North Minneapolis\").\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompassion for animals, strength from nature, a community of gratitude to help heal and experience a whole life ... these are the gifts Tolf offers to readers in her latest collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Francine Marie Tolf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1936671808\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781936671809\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pinyon Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/11\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 82\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d","brand":"Francine Marie Tolf","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44056800854271,"sku":"9781936671809","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_72f5922b-8c7f-471c-b83e-45f661e2ac20.jpg?v=1685043350","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/spill-some-new-brightness-francine-marie-tolf-9781936671809","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}