{"product_id":"9780964115118","title":"The Lord and the General Din of the World","description":"\u003cp\u003eJane Mead was educated at Vassar College, Syracuse University, and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and has taught at several schools in the San Francisco Bay area, at Colby College, and in the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, In 1991, State Street Press published her long poem \"A Truck Marked Flammable\" as a chapbook. Her individual poems have been widely published in such places as \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, Best American Poetry of 1990, American Poetry Review, The Virginia Quarterly, Ploughshares\u003c\/i\u003e , and \u003ci\u003eThe Antioch Review\u003c\/i\u003e . In 1992, she received a Whiting Writers' Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Mead's poems lay bare a pathology that evidences the world and the self as illness and cure, where language bears the hellish and the holy fruit of its culture. Mead unsettles me. And I'm grateful.\"- \u003ci\u003eAmerican Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Waiting for redemption from on high is a futile hope, and from that sudden understanding comes the animating imagination that carries these poems along. They read with an ease exceptional in poetry today, and at times with a playfulness akin to some of Roethke's last books.\"- \u003ci\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jane Mead-Poet. Author of what may be the best book of poems for 1996- \u003ci\u003eThe Lord and the General Din of the World.\u003c\/i\u003e \"- \u003ci\u003eThe Bloomsbury Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" \u003ci\u003eThe Lord and the General Din of the World\u003c\/i\u003e , spoken in an intensely open voice . . . suggests that the only stable existential presence can be created in the language of art. But at every turn the relationship between language and identity is questioned.\"- \u003ci\u003eThe Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[These poems] may change your view of what has meaning in the madness of American culture. Such poetry could easily become tediously clinical or unbearably despairing, as so many poems on the subject are. In fact, Mead never lets the reader off easy the unearned hope or resolutions. She does reveal, however, possibilities for redemption.\"- \u003ci\u003eSmall Press Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"These are not poems to be read silently, in a comfortable corner or chair. . . . [Mead's] poems enriched my appreciation of words and image and life in general.\"- \u003ci\u003eHodge Podge Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarabande Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47023079817456,"sku":"9780964115118","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780964115118_p0.jpg?v=1763875679","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780964115118","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}