{"product_id":"stars-at-noon-enid-shomer-9781557287120","title":"Stars at Noon: Poems from the Life of Jacqueline Cochran","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese poems give voice to the life of the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound. While Jacqueline Cochran was alive, no man or woman in the world could match her records for speed, distance, and altitude flying. Founder and director of the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II, Cochran continued to fly competitively until she was sixty, owned and operated her own line of designer cosmetics for three decades, ran for Congress, and generally placed herself on the path of history. Having begun life as a foundling in the crushing poverty of a lumber company town of the Florida panhandle, she described her life as \"a passage from sawdust to stardust.\" Yet after her death she has barely been remembered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoet Enid Shomer brings back this mercurial, dazzling, powerful woman. These poems speak in her voice and in the voices of her mother, teachers, husband, confidants, and political opponents, shaped by Shomer's consummate formal control and stunning lyricism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Enid Shomer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1557287120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781557287120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arkansas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.82w x 0.33d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2001 pg. 375\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniv PR Books for Public Libry\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2002 pg. 78 - Strongly Recommended","brand":"Enid Shomer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46739045449983,"sku":"9781557287120","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_74585a9f-0896-4f07-ad18-9ef12a9c6f9b.jpg?v=1743277042","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stars-at-noon-enid-shomer-9781557287120","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}