{"product_id":"that-strapless-bra-in-heaven-sarah-sarai-9781950462209","title":"That Strapless Bra in Heaven","description":"\u003ci\u003eThat Strapless Bra\u003c\/i\u003e holds up Sarah Sarai as a keen observer of the world. With wit and sardonic reflections, Sarai brings poems that fuel a long ride.\u003cp\u003eJulie R. Enszer, author of \u003ci\u003eAvowed, Lilith's Demons, Sisterhood, \u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eSinister Wisdom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf it is to be of any value \/ a story will be misunderstood\" - that's Sarah Sarai in \u003ci\u003eThat Strapless Bra in Heaven. \u003c\/i\u003eA visionary who can't quite keep a straight face, a prophet quicker to laughter than judgment, Sarai is a virtuoso of the one-liner - \"too much is as it seems\" - but she works with a vast cultural canvas, and sorrow and a thirst for the real underlie, the scintillating eloquence. Dante's journey is a dream, Stalin's famine never ends, Dido weeps in the city she built, humans wander through a world of staggering beauty never quite knowing how to love each other: \"What do monkeys worry about? \/ Our imaginations grown dim?\" \u003ci\u003eThe Strapless Bra in Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e is a roller coaster, but it's grounded in what we once called wisdom. Sarai's new book is a thrilling read. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eD. Nurkse, author of \u003ci\u003eLove in the Last Days: After Tristan and Iseult; The Border Kingdom; The Fall \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"light... in the unnavigable dead end\" \/ these poems are as truthful as Sarah herself \u0026amp; a bit surreal \/ they are both weighty \u0026amp; cunning \/\/ unmask gender \/ benders \/ dilemmas \u0026amp; tyrants \/ nasty politics \u0026amp; social disgrace in all areas \u0026amp; eras often merging them while encompassing \u0026amp; compressing the personal \u0026amp; objective past \u0026amp; future with the present. \"You dreamed you were a prophet... You awoke an anarchist... ready to kill\" \/ Sarah sorts out socio-political angst \/ trickery \u0026amp; self-righteous humanism \/ while tackling that \"mountain pass from child \/ hood to the freeing squalor...\" \"Reader, if you were seam... I'd take you out anywhere...\" \/ \"you are the first line of this poem... this poem exists for you...\" \/ \"you're not dead you're middle aged...\" \/ \"I say good riddance... though I'll miss myself...\" these poems reveal, as Sarah puts it, \"the artist's confidence to create celestial buoyancy...\" \/ wake up, sleeper. at times biblical \/ never preachy. read them \u0026amp; weep \/ laugh \/ ponder. i wish you more than luck, Sarah. i wish you much success.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteve Dalachinsky is author of \u003ci\u003ewhere night and day become one: the french poems, 1983 - 2017.\u003c\/i\u003e He received a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2014.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Sarai\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 195046220X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781950462209\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelsay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/29\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.19d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarah Sarai","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43941639520511,"sku":"9781950462209","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_ab844158-8587-4bf1-b79a-7da34ab3e877.jpg?v=1681454097","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/that-strapless-bra-in-heaven-sarah-sarai-9781950462209","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}