{"product_id":"9781450281454","title":"A Leaf Called Socrates: Poetry Memoir by Ann Holmes","description":"The interplay of the written word and the painted image converge in Ann Holmes’ skillfully crafted poetry. Holmes gets inside the action of a poem, imagining what it is like to be the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, a goat in Greece, spring beginning, a cloud refusing to change its form. Love, loss, wonder, and the quirkiness of life leap off the page.\u003cp\u003e  How rich a palette, poet-artist Ann Holmes’ brings to her second collection “A Leaf Called Socrates.” How powerful is her artist pen as she approaches biblical and ancient figures as intimates. “I glaze a Bosch bubble\/around Adam and Eve\/so they may stay in the garden.” With engines of irony and honesty, her poem “When I knew,” creates a loving reproach to intimate family encounters. Her poems, revealing human frailties, glow nonetheless, with color and affection. After her sojourn as an artist in Japan, she evokes a place where ‘Seven round holes\/one above the other\/”exist, “as if the moon\/ dropped out\/ of the sky.” In this new collection of poetry, her language, phrase and imagery paint emotional hues to reveal people in their flaws and creative gifts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  -Lou Barrett, author of Connecting Flights, Doors Gates and Portals, Clotheslines\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iUniverse, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128592646384,"sku":"9781450281454","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781450281454_p0.jpg?v=1763835161","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781450281454","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}