{"product_id":"9781555979584","title":"Cinder: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“One of the finest poets of the last fifty years.” —\u003ci\u003eSalt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eto the\u003c\/i\u003e N\u003ci\u003eth, like the truth of an ending\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eunskeined across the crust of the white field.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThough it happened only once, I\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eam sending the thought\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eof the thought\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003econtinuing.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e                          To return to\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe field before the mowing.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen a goldfinch swayed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eon a blue stem stalk,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eand the wind and the sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003estirred the hay.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—from “After the Mowing”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCinder: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e gathers for the first time poetry  from across Susan Stewart’s thirty-five-year career, including many  extraordinary new poems. From brief songs to longer meditative  sequences, and always with formal innovation and exquisite precision,  Stewart evokes the innocence of childhood, the endangered mysteries of  the natural world, and deeply felt perceptions, both acute and shared.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Stewart explores our insatiable desire to remember and make meaning out of this remembering,” Ange Mlinko writes in \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e.  “Stewart’s elegiac bent has broadened, over time, from the personal  lyric . . . to what might be called the cultural lyric. Fewer and fewer  of her poems reference what she alone remembers; they are about what you  and I remember.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading across this retrospective collection is  a singular experience of seeing the unfolding development of one of  the most ingenious and moving lyric writers in contemporary poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128611455216,"sku":"9781555979584","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555979584_p0.jpg?v=1763753790","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555979584","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}