{"product_id":"9780807165935","title":"The Bad Secret: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Bad Secret takes readers on a dark yet sometimes comic sojourn through the undercurrents of a life suddenly unmoored by grief, and then to the subsequent rise of the spirit to recovery. Tough-minded and intellectual, Judith Harris's poems are also distinguished by brilliant images close to metaphysical. They reflect on childhood, nature, mental and physical illness, the loss of a mother, and the levity of being simply human. In a voice entirely her own, Harris confronts life's secrets with their hidden meanings inspired by guilt and redemption, offering a music of tenderness and hope. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI watch it gutter down, over the pine's edge,over the pink and orange sunset,diving into the abyss,with its wings perpendicular to the ravine.By now, I have broken offfrom the rest, pretending I'm an orphan -- my eyes fixed on the unseeable destruction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof my ghost in that suicidal machine. \"Hush,\" I say, as if hatred was a sound,as if I could make the negative positive, but nature itself has given up on the picture of my happy family, and pretends not to look at the box with the rolled-up Kodak filmtumbling over the ledgegathering more weight and velocity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -- \"My Father Throws His Camera Down the Grand Canyon, 1968\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107269886192,"sku":"9780807165935","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780807165935_p0.jpg?v=1763743581","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780807165935","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}