{"product_id":"the-joy-of-their-holiness-peggy-turnbull-9781952326127","title":"The Joy of Their Holiness","description":"Before calling Peggy Turnbull's poems \"poignant,\" I looked the word up to find it might suggest sadness and even some regret. Yet it also connotes a sharpness or pungency. There is some sadness here, yes, yet the poems are also pungent like a sharp Wisconsin cheddar. Turnbull always acknowledges \"the goddess \/ of sweet small things\" and celebrates \"the blessings in my tiny, mortal life.\" Hers is \"a world suffused with awe.\" She allows the small things she encounters to speak for themselves and brings us to their greater wonder. This is a remarkable collection.\u003cp\u003eTom Montag, Poet, essayist, and blogger. Author of \u003ci\u003eSeventy at Seventy, The Big Book of Ben Zen, In This Place: Selected Poems 1982-2013; \u003c\/i\u003eco-editor (with David Graham) of \u003ci\u003eLocal News: Poetry About Small Towns. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeggy Turnbull's poems are \"thimbles full of joy.\" They are rife with deliciousness: briny olives, zingy red sauce, sweet blueberries simmering in batter. They are prickly with brittle grass and wild turkeys, a \"pigeon-colored sky\" overhead. These are poems of family and tradition; they honor the natural world. Under Turnbull's graceful pen and skillful eye, nothing escapes her, no scent or sound, nor sight. \"[Your] body grows beyond its borders into the moment of [her] attention.\u003ci\u003e Yes, I see you. Yes, we are connected.\"\u003c\/i\u003e Indeed we are.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKarla Huston, Wisconsin Poet Laureate 2017-18. Author of\u003ci\u003e Grief Bone and The Theory of Lipstick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoised between eons past and future, \"We are here,\" Peggy Turnbull writes, \"to sing our one song.\" Hers is a symphony, animated by love, wonder, reverence. In these poems, she rejoices in moments of revelation-the voices of children playing quietly, \"as beautiful as the Gospel,\" a Buddha with \"tawny dreadlocks\" encountered in the AutoZone, the \"coyote who leaps into my path.\" Mother, child, and father come together in one poem as the poet marks how, \"The night ratchets up in happiness,\" and asks, [C]reation, bringer of our abundance-how to bless it in return.\" These poems may be that blessing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErica Strauss, retired English lecturer, University of Wisconsin System; co-founder and President, Lakeshore Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Manitowoc, Wisconsin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peggy Turnbull\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1952326125\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781952326127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelsay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/09\/2020\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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peggy Turnbull","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48486499614975,"sku":"9781952326127","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_24abc456-3353-4895-8b23-9583a78bc13b.jpg?v=1778055717","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-joy-of-their-holiness-peggy-turnbull-9781952326127","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}