{"product_id":"9780990428732","title":"A Passing","description":"\u003cbr\u003eSiegel's book is a meditation, a held breath, a chord lingered on and released, the silence eloquent as the music. In these poems, memory both preserves and fails, distorts and clarifies. She meets small deaths (a hummingbird, a cat) and large (her own loved ones, and victims of war and the Holocaust) with a steady gaze. But there is also the cherry blooming outside the window, Degas' dancer, a child's new language \"that sputters off your lips and drops \/ ripe as a juicy pear in my lap.\"—Mary Makofske\u003cp\u003eThe poems in Joan I. Siegel's A Passing offer startling bardic moments. In a poem's anguished speaker, a sudden transcendence takes place. In the reader, a sudden awakening ensues from a \"window's shocking brightness,\" or a subtle \"memory of a window,\" or the profound emptiness of \"molecules that never touch.\"—Sandra Graff\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deerbrook Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47017762062576,"sku":"9780990428732","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780990428732_p0.jpg?v=1763895351","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780990428732","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}