{"product_id":"waiting-for-the-snow-deborah-hochberg-9781950659968","title":"Waiting for the Snow: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe summer turns on its solstice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn incessant wheel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrowing off roses, day lilies, stars\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe night's secrets unfurl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-from \"Hot Tea On A Summer Night\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this debut volume, Detroit-based writer Deborah Hochberg has crafted a collection of radiant poems which sing of moments when perception suddenly yields to insight and illumination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom re-imagining myth, to living in Detroit's Cass Corridor, immersing oneself in nature, the disappointments and ecstasies of desire, the journey through loss and grief, and the bonds of familial devotion, these finely observed poems wrap the reader in language that shifts from plainspoken to playful to allusive. Ms. Hochberg is a poet of moments when habitual ways of perceiving fall away to reveal the luminous reality, in all its beauty and complexity, which usually lies hidden behind the veil of the mundane.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy turns whimsical, joyful, meditative, and haunted, these searching poems celebrate the sensuality inherent in everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSudden summer rain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erinses the quarter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLightning arroyos\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003evein the sky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-from \"Evening Sky\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Deborah Hochberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1950659968\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781950659968\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mission Point Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/17\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.19d","brand":"Deborah Hochberg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46233089507583,"sku":"9781950659968","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4bf031c1-3f4d-4e24-a4a7-ccd340557033.jpg?v=1728992039","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/waiting-for-the-snow-deborah-hochberg-9781950659968","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}