{"product_id":"9781550651409","title":"Beauties on Mad River: New and Selected Poems","description":" Beauties on Mad River collects together fifteen years of poetry that has appeared in three Signal Editions: The Fabulous Disguise of Ourselves, South of the Tudo Bem Café (1990), and What Dante Did With Loss (1994). This is poetry that, in the words of George Elliot Clarke, \"maps not so much the world as the soul.\"\u003cp\u003e Almost half the poems in this volume are new - many are \"keystone\" poems inspired by the spirit of the eastern lyric form, the ghazal.   \"Through the medium of the keystone poems,\" Conn states, \"I perceive more clearly now, and in ways that I did not previously, the themes of individual earlier pieces... These 'plateau' pieces have functioned for me as true keystones, as revelatory glimpses back into my work of the last fifteen years.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Author Bio: Jan Conn has lived in Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, Caracas, and Gainsville, Florida. She now teaches in the biology department at the University of Vermont where she also works on the evolutionary history and genetics of mosquitoes.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vehicule Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049708470512,"sku":"9781550651409","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781550651409_p0.jpg?v=1763751887","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781550651409","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}