{"product_id":"0096009311292","title":"Mobster Classics Hits, Vol. 2 [2 Discs]","description":"\u003cbr\u003ePoetry. RETURN FROM ELSEWHERE is the co-winner of the competition for the 2014 Outriders Poetry Selection. The volume contains over fifty short poems ranging, in the words of critic Gabriel Levin, through \"seemingly irreconcilable polarities: faith and betrayal, confession, secrecy, risk and failure [as well as] desire--licit and illicit.\" The book concludes with \u003cem\u003ePorous\u003c\/em\u003e, a long poem-sequence.\u003cp\u003e\"Linda Zisquit writes like a dream—a dream of love, or death, or God. Her lyricism is pure and spotless...Disciplined in form, elegant in utterance, fearless in self- scrutiny, these are works of profound—can I say noble? —beauty...RETURN FROM ELSEWHERE is Zisquit's most brilliant book yet.\"—Alicia Ostriker \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ever since her first collection \u003cem\u003eRitual Bath\u003c\/em\u003e, Linda Zisquit has wrested her tensile, lyric poems out of seemingly irreconcilable polarities: faith and betrayal, confession, secrecy, risk and failure. Now, in her fifth collection, desire—licit and illicit love—is evoked through the sifting of memory in the extended sequence, \u003cem\u003ePorous\u003c\/em\u003e, its ruptured, centrifugal narrative seeking release from loss and regret; and in her cantilevered ghazals, the medieval Persian form's yoking of the sacred and the profane is perfectly suited to the poet's self- interrogation and probing of Biblical lore.\"—Gabriel Levin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If we ever doubted Linda Stern Zisquit's unique significance among English- language poets, \u003cem\u003ePorous\u003c\/em\u003e finally unites her with the author of the Biblical Song of Songs. A love—the love—is lost, but found again in the porousness of memory, just as the lost love of the Bible—the Creator Himself—responds to the soul of the poet-lover. [In the book's short poems and ghazals] there are quietly dramatic queries between nature or city, reaching back for wholeness to her maiden name\/life. Throughout RETURN FROM ELSEWHERE, Zisquit forces us to contemplate what a Biblical poet writing in a Jerusalem today would be up against. It's exhilarating, restorative, and irreplaceable.\"—David Rosenberg.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PLATINUM DISC, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47095050797296,"sku":"0096009311292","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/0096009311292_p0.jpg?v=1763427159","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/0096009311292","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}