{"product_id":"tiger-laughs-when-you-push-ruth-lehrer-9780692604755","title":"Tiger Laughs When You Push","description":"\u003ci\u003eTiger laughs when you push \/ She already has dirt with her donut \/ and knows the cage is cardboard.\u003c\/i\u003e The poems in \u003ci\u003eTiger Laughs When You Push\u003c\/i\u003e are full of wit, lyric ingenuity, and imaginative acuteness. \u003ci\u003eHeartcracked, I need cereal lowjack \/ fruit GPS \/ to get out from under \/ the cheesy cheers.\u003c\/i\u003e Ruth Lehrer's virtuosity for the use of detail, for image, for sound - is unique and a great great gift to encounter. These poems are insightful and provocative. They are marvelous.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e- Emily Pettit, author of \u003ci\u003eGoat in the Snow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom a mother who sends her daughter a \"napkin of rotted teeth\" to a parrot that squawks in \"lilting Lithuanian\" to Eden who \"squatted menstrual blood paintings\" the poems in \u003ci\u003eTiger Laughs When You Push\u003c\/i\u003e constantly shock the reader with original imagery, startling language, keen observation, and bigness of heart. And if that wasn't enough, \u003ci\u003edayenu, \u003c\/i\u003e the lines are scattered with a bagel here, a bialy there, cheese blintzes, hot pastrami, applesauce, sour cream and more. These poems made my mouth water and left me hungry for more of Ruth Lehrer's fine poems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e- Lesléa Newman, author of \u003ci\u003eI Carry My Mother\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ruth Lehrer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0692604758\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780692604755\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Headmistress Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/11\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.08d","brand":"Ruth Lehrer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48441265389823,"sku":"9780692604755","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_88c63f28-1525-4241-bddf-4591e32b5b1f.jpg?v=1777189783","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tiger-laughs-when-you-push-ruth-lehrer-9780692604755","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}