{"product_id":"9781555975432","title":"Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters Between Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Delicacy and Strength of Lace\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe timeless exchange of advice and friendship between two of our greatest literary talents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDear Leslie: Of course I can't know whether or not the world looks strange to God. But sometimes it looks strange to me.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeslie Marmon Silko and James Wright met only twice. First, briefly, in 1975, at a writers' conference in Michigan. Their correspondence began three years later, after Wright wrote to Silko praising her book\u003ci\u003e Ceremony\u003c\/i\u003e. The letters began formally, and then each writer gradually opened to the other, sharing his or her life, work, and struggles. The second meeting between the two writers came in a hospital room, as Wright lay dying of cancer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e wrote something of Wright that applies to both writers—of qualities that this exchange of letters makes evident: \"Our age desperately needs his vision of brotherly love, his transcendent sense of nature, the clarity of his courageous voice.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054936998128,"sku":"9781555975432","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555975432_p0.jpg?v=1763754783","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555975432","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}