{"product_id":"this-gift-card-has-already-mischa-willett-9798893480542","title":"This Gift Card Has Already Been Redeemed: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA luminous new collection from widely published essayist, translator, and critically acclaimed poet Mischa Willett, one of the most compelling voices in modern religious poetry. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his new collection, Mischa Willett negotiates with the vibrant voices of recent contemporaries, from Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda, and Denise Levertov to W.M. Ransom, David Lee and Fleda Brown. The poems in \u003ci\u003eThis Gift Card Has Already Been Redeemed\u003c\/i\u003e navigate faith, prayer, and church, but also disappointment, displacement, and deep reading. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Willett observes in a poem engaging with Marvin Bell, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It isn't doubt when suffering seizes the hilltop of your \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eheart or when the fireplace of ashes misses the heat that \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emade it--when in the traffic you simply can't hear a thing \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eor the way is unclear--none of that is doubt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's faith, when you come to it, that asks of us everything, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat empties and empties until we are full, that fills the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egnaw in the gut, dispels the cloud of mind, that runs out \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe money-changers in the forecourt, that names.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth referential and reverent, this striking and deeply moving collection balances humor with the profound seriousness and abiding joy available at the heart of human life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Mischa Willett from Scott Cairns, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSlow Pilgrim: The Collected Poems\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e-- \u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003eMischa Willett has a music all his own, albeit a music informed by years of his attending to the inexhaustible songs that comprise both world poetry and sacred text. He employs surprising linguistic brilliance to compose \u003ci\u003eoratoria\u003c\/i\u003e that brighten the heart of his reader, even as they transpose the familiar, offering echoes of a prior song lovingly adapted to a new, an exhilarating voice.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mischa Willett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798893480542\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Paraclete Press (MA)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs","brand":"Mischa Willett","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48447298437375,"sku":"9798893480542","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bbe8c35f-ec43-4784-8cc6-1b5361a80d65.jpg?v=1777230178","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/this-gift-card-has-already-mischa-willett-9798893480542","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}