{"product_id":"9781469106366","title":"Loving is Listening To the Fine Beating of Wings: Collected Poems","description":"This collection of poems by Lois Silverstein offers us a vast range of  \u003cbr\u003efeeling in poems for every taste: from the fi ne haiku-like precision of imagery  \u003cbr\u003eand chiseled use of words and language to their condensations of allusions  \u003cbr\u003eand a wide gamut of feeling; from their celebration of childhood wonder  \u003cbr\u003eto the intimacy of love, its ritual bonds and mystical eroticism; from their  \u003cbr\u003eintense longing for joy, with its concomitant melancholy and realism to  \u003cbr\u003etheir eloquent tribute to death, with choking feelings of grief. LOVING IS  \u003cbr\u003eLISTENING TO THE FINE BEATING OF WINGS is a book of poems  \u003cbr\u003ethat matter. Please read them.  \u003cbr\u003e-Abdul Jabbar, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, City College of SF,  \u003cbr\u003eEnglish and Interdisciplinary Studies  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eThese poems sparkle. The objects and actions of daily life, the relationships  \u003cbr\u003ewithin the family are presented as already refracted - their light is clear and  \u003cbr\u003eat the same time changes direction - discovers new facets or new depths of  \u003cbr\u003ea scene or an experience - nothing is simple here, least of all the way simple  \u003cbr\u003ewords redirect the reader to resee the ordinary.  \u003cbr\u003eIn fact, these are wonderful poems. I am full of admiration for them. I  \u003cbr\u003elove reading them. Lois Silverstein as caught those fl itting passing moments  \u003cbr\u003eof our lives -- the watching of a child in some discovery, the watching of a cat,  \u003cbr\u003ea tree, a love and a deep loss. These are not poems just personal to the poet  \u003cbr\u003ebut to us. They speak of our own discoveries, sometimes horrible, it's true,  \u003cbr\u003ebut they disclose some of the dimensions of our dearest reality.  \u003cbr\u003eEllen Spolsky, Ph.D., Professor of English, Bar-Ilan University, Israel","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129536626928,"sku":"9781469106366","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781469106366_p0.jpg?v=1763697779","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781469106366","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}