{"product_id":"the-wind-master-cherry-the-larissa-szporluk-9781882295395","title":"The Wind, Master Cherry, the Wind","description":"\u003cp\u003eHaunting and spare, \u003ci\u003eThe Wind, Master Cherry, The Wind \u003c\/i\u003eis obsessed with fate's fickle nature. Propelled by internal rhyme, these lyric poems draw on fairy tales and fables, stories from the Bible and from Carlo Collodi's \u003ci\u003ePinocchio\u003c\/i\u003e, their characters blown hither and thither by mythic winds--but -inevitably, toward an awareness of mortality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside the Dog-Fish\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWide as the church, the sea, the cavern, \u003cbr\u003ehard as a rock, a tree, a geyser, tight\u003cbr\u003eas the spot of birth, hot as the furnace, \u003cbr\u003eserpent, witch, plain as the ego, primitive, \u003cbr\u003etomb, loose as a swallow's whirling torso, \u003cbr\u003efiery vertebra--madre terribile, mother\u003cbr\u003eof agony, atony, urge, providing a passage, \u003cbr\u003ea sabbath, excuse, symbol of charm\u003cbr\u003egone darkly sour, emotional windbag\u003cbr\u003epricked by the light of the luna cornuta, \u003cbr\u003espitting up trinkets and bottles of rum, \u003cbr\u003eand pages of books, and chunks of men.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mark Strand describes Edward Hopper's work as being informed by two imperatives, one that urges us to continue and the other that compels us to stay. Such is the experience of reading \u003ci\u003eThe Wind, Master Cherry, The Wind\u003c\/i\u003e, Larissa Szporluk's demanding and brilliant new book: we are both urged -forward and held back by its mysterious intellection. -Szporluk's work is about meaning: what can be known and what cannot be, what can be divulged and what must be withheld. \u003ci\u003eThe Wind, Master Cherry, The Wind\u003c\/i\u003e is fraught with such taut pleasures. This is poetry both luscious and rigorous.\"--Lynn Emanuel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Larissa Szporluk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1882295390\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781882295395\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice James Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 68\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.64h x 5.40w x 0.25d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/21\/2003 pg. 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2003 pg. 172\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2003","brand":"Larissa Szporluk","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44075107844351,"sku":"9781882295395","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3e9d9035-6006-421f-b8f7-17da8c61ec3d.jpg?v=1685457652","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-wind-master-cherry-the-larissa-szporluk-9781882295395","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}