{"product_id":"9780888015594","title":"Never Mind","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eNever Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, Katherine Lawrence constructs a centuries-old immigrant tale that is fiercely feminist, surprisingly modern, and darkly funny. The voice in these exquisite poems is a 19\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century woman who straddles both old and new worlds as she navigates her own interior landscape. Observations are wry, intimate, and shot with musicality. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis muscular collection pays tribute to the long poem while extending the tradition with fragments from letters, diary entries, sketches, dialogue, and an ongoing communion with the natural world. \"Who knocks?\" asks Wife in \u003ci\u003eNever Mind\u003c\/i\u003e. \"Maple leaves reddened with gossip -- \u003ci\u003eCome in.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew star in the longpoem sky, Never Mind \u003ci\u003eby Katherine Lawrence gets cunning on page 5 and stays that way, throwing open the shutters of self, family, history, nation. Its language settles toward, while reaching free of, a narrative we expect but have not seen quite this way. Its open forms give but don't give in. We'll be grateful for this book.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Gerald Hill, author of \u003ci\u003eHillsdale Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLayered, distinctive, and adventurous, Katherine Lawrence's Never Mind \u003ci\u003eseems set in the past but vaults into a future poetic. At once ethereal and concrete, her words, through erasure and oblique reference, invite engagement and speculation. They make you mind.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Steven Ross Smith, author of \u003ci\u003eEmanations: Fluttertongue 6\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLyricism and beauty, loss and awe, horror and grief--these poems comprise an unflinching portrait of a woman (and artist) who spends a lifetime asking herself: \"What brought me here?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Patricia Young, author of \u003ci\u003eNight-Eater \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAn Auto-erotic History of Swings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Turnstone Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47009338130672,"sku":"9780888015594","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780888015594_p0.jpg?v=1763857173","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780888015594","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}