{"product_id":"9780807143179","title":"Portrait of the Artist as a White Pig: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese rich, lyrical poems, written by Jane Gentry over ten years, register the resonance between the poet's inner being and the outer world's everyday events. Moments of insight -- gained while watching a roofer at work next door, napping with the cat, reading on the porch, carrying the laundry, or strolling the aisles of Sam's Club -- expose the bright bones of the swiftness of time's passage, reminding us to stay attentive. Gentry's poems are deeply grounded in the continuity of family and homeplace yet also embrace new experiences. The juxtaposition of the ordinary and the beautiful, the paradox of the mundane and the artistic -- whether in nature, in relationships, in memories, or in the body -- are the hallmarks of her second collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe years took our house, cool and dark,\u003cbr\u003egenerous as a healthy heart, where in September\u003cbr\u003ea cricket sang under the kitchen hearth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey took my mother with her red hair\u003cbr\u003eand her creamy skin, and my father\u003cbr\u003ewhose laughing head shone with the fire\u003cbr\u003eof summer as he shoveled corn to his pigs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I awoke one day, my bloom\u003cbr\u003ewas past. Those who loved me first were dead,\u003cbr\u003eand promises had blown away like chaff\u003cbr\u003eor clouds, which dazzle now only in the moment\u003cbr\u003eof their height and roll.\u003cbr\u003eThe years have given back the thing itself.\u003cbr\u003e -- from \"My Life Story\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123747078384,"sku":"9780807143179","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780807143179_p0.jpg?v=1763737793","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780807143179","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}