{"product_id":"the-sound-boat-judith-vollmer-9780299336943","title":"The Sound Boat: New and Selected Poems","description":"Judith Vollmer's sixth collection explores human voices and geographies, stories and mysteries, and natural phenomena inside urban spaces. Her lyrical narratives, character portraits, locational investigations, and choral fragments often emerge from physical objects and from green and\/or ruined cityscapes. Vollmer's home city, Pittsburgh, and its sister-locations within Italy and Poland, undergird her attention to orientation and perception at work in her poems' acutely visual studies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Featuring twenty-one new and fifty-seven selected poems from her earlier volumes--\u003ci\u003eThe Apollonia Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Water Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReactor\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Door Open to the Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLevel Green\u003c\/i\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Sound Boat\u003c\/i\u003e reveals Vollmer's devotion to examining place and space to uncover poetry that touches emotions related to wandering physical and emotional realms: some familial and deeply personal, some unknowable. \u003cbr\u003e Old city, I've come East for your long day and endless night: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e down in the street, between the turtle fountain and the iron head \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e the party shouts and sings, sweats and snakes, swells into a throb \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e or momentum of sound. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e --Excerpt from \"The Sound Boat\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Judith Vollmer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0299336948\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299336943\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/26\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.93w x 0.63d","brand":"Judith Vollmer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44047715041535,"sku":"9780299336943","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f1e85d1b-93a6-4006-8034-36dd6d6d86ea.jpg?v=1684991780","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-sound-boat-judith-vollmer-9780299336943","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}