{"product_id":"9780983998501","title":"Leave It Behind","description":"LEAVE IT BEHIND expresses the paradoxical wish of every poet, seeking to leave behind-in both senses of that phrase-the language trace of her mind and heart. And what a fine first book Emily Raabe has left behind: vivid and strange, haunted by dreamed animals, alive with the landscapes and losses of her Vermont childhood. Raabe's poetry seeks \"something like love\/ in that it is the absence\/ of distance\"-and yet it faces both absence and distance with unflinching imagination, intelligence and grace. -Dan Chiasson, author of WHERE'S THE MOON, THERE'S THE MOON\u003cp\u003eThe poems in Emily Raabe's first collection, LEAVE IT BEHIND, are distinct and imaginative. Often with a surreal edge, they have the intensity and grip of dream imagery and dream narrative: \"My best dream\/ goes like this: two fields\/ cut by a thin line of trees.\/ In the dream I'm at the line\/ when the storm comes in.\" And so the reader is immediately drawn into the poem with a sense of suspense in which the familiar has a strange and ominous aura. Raabe is able to find her identity in correlations between herself and the outer world as in \"Self-Portrait of a House\": \"If I were a house, I'd be a little\/ green house, with peeling paint\/ and an Ali Baba stairway\/ to my swinging green screen door,\" and so she invites her reader into a world of innuendo. Her poems possess an engaging freshness, and her debut as a new poet is to be welcomed. -Robert Pack, author of LAUGHTER BEFORE SLEEP\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FutureCycle Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49952627523824,"sku":"9780983998501","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780983998501","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}