{"product_id":"9780374714918","title":"Standing Water: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA profound literary debut that recounts a child’s singular story\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSince I made you, you may\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003e                                               imagine I set myself on fire\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e                                               or better, say: you lit the funeral pyre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e                                               from ten thousand days away.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA young woman in Paris encounters an uncanny presence on a tour of a small museum.  A study by Rodin of the dancer Little Hanako—titled \u003ci\u003eHead of Sorrow\u003c\/i\u003e—triggers in the young woman recognition of her mother, a mother erased from her life since childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Thus begins Eleanor Chai’s \u003ci\u003eStanding Water\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the most remarkable first books of poetry in recent years.  It is a journey into the past as well as the present—into the narrative hidden from the poet since birth, as well as the strategies that she has adopted to survive.  It is a journey about how we learn to cope with, to perceive and describe, the world.  It is a story about savage privilege and deprivation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Haunting the whole is the figure of the real Little Hanako—Rodin’s model, a Japanese artist displaced in Europe, the medium through which other artists dream and discover the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121382015216,"sku":"9780374714918","price":9.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374714918_p0.jpg?v=1769916111","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374714918","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}