{"product_id":"9780873388474","title":"Trying to Speak: Poems (Wick Poetry First Book Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2004 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The voice [in Anele Rubin’s poems] is so new, and yet the movement is so artful, subtle, and modest—there are never any theatrics in these poems. They never yowl, Pay attention to me! . . . Rubin is on the same wave-length with Tomas Tranströmer and Yehuda Amichai. . . . The emotional range of her poems, like theirs, is enormous, as is the range of locales, many of which I know well, and yet in \u003cb\u003eTrying to Speak\u003c\/b\u003e, they appear with a clarity that had eluded me.”\u003cb\u003e— Philip Levine, Judge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Anele Rubin’s poems illuminate an astonishing range of emotional experience. Visual, tactile, simple and complex, her words lure you from poem to poem—sometimes exquisite, sometimes austere, always original.”\u003cb\u003e— Ruth Stone\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is a powerful and beautifully lyrical book of great wisdom, whose theme is emotional resurrection.”\u003cb\u003e— Toi Derricotte\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kent State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027544097008,"sku":"9780873388474","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780873388474_p0.jpg?v=1769912261","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780873388474","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}