{"product_id":"thunderbird-dorothea-lasky-9781933517636","title":"Thunderbird","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"In lines that remind me of the way William Carlos Williams insisted that only the imagination gives us access to reality, Lasky's poems evoke a practice of living, as bloody and awful and lovely as living can ever be.\"--Julia Bloch, \u003ci\u003eBitch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The beautiful thing about Lasky, in all her work, but particularly here, is her ability to create that same sense of earnestness, the sense that she is telling you a secret.\"--InDigest Magazine, InDigest Picks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGo, brave and gentle reader, with Dorothea Lasky to the \"purple motel \/ where the bird lives.\" Go with her, as you have willingly gone down the dark passages before, with her bare-faced poems for guidance. \u003ci\u003eThunderbird\u003c\/i\u003e's controlled rage plunges into the black interior armed with nothing but guts and Lasky's own fiery heart to light the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBaby of air\u003cbr\u003eYou rose into the mystical\u003cbr\u003eSide of things\u003cbr\u003eYou could no longer live with us\u003cbr\u003eWe put you in a little home\u003cbr\u003eWhere they shut and locked the door\u003cbr\u003eAnd at night\u003cbr\u003eYou blew out\u003cbr\u003eAnd went wandering . . . \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDorothea Lasky\u003c\/b\u003e is also the author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Life\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAWE\u003c\/i\u003e, both from Wave Books. She lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dorothea Lasky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1933517638\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781933517636\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wave Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/11\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/20\/2012 pg. 38","brand":"Dorothea Lasky","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43978820157695,"sku":"9781933517636","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c77710d7-c68a-4ed8-b088-e8a0396aab48.jpg?v=1683243150","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/thunderbird-dorothea-lasky-9781933517636","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}