{"product_id":"the-writing-of-an-hour-brenda-coultas-9780819580719","title":"The Writing of an Hour","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage as a means to transcend the quotidian and to explore the senses\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat actually happens within the revolution of the clock's hands? In \u003ci\u003eThe Writing of an Hour\u003c\/i\u003e the poet considers the effort and the deliberateness that brings her to her desk each day. Despite domestic and day job demands and widespread lockdown, Coultas forges connections to the sublime and wonders what it means to be from the Americas. These poems verge on the surreal, transform the quotidian, and respond anew to the marvelous. The Writing of an Hour takes the reader on a journey in four sections; from a bedroom to an improvised desk over the North Sea, where she attempts to create an artwork inside an airplane cabin flying over Greenland's rivers of ice. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mending Hour\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI tied one on, I mean I took my grandmother's apron, its strings and glittery rickrack and I wore it on the streets of the East Village. The apron is a cloak of superpowers, a psychic umbrella I paraded past Emma Goldman's E. 10th St. address, and rang her doorbell for a sip of water. My domestic armor is made of gingham though a woman is still considered an unelectable candidate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brenda Coultas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0819580716\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819580719\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/08\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 5.98w x 0.87d","brand":"Brenda Coultas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44042610901247,"sku":"9780819580719","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ea67493e-3864-41e5-8052-4f99563a6ced.jpg?v=1684962504","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-writing-of-an-hour-brenda-coultas-9780819580719","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}