{"product_id":"9781556591570","title":"The Vulnerability of Order","description":"\u003cp\u003eWildness and disorder. Martine Bellen's third collection of poetry taps into the chaotic and irrepressible spirit which inspires artistic expression. Whether exploiting philosophical fragments from ancient Greece or penetrating the rituals of the great world religions, Bellen is in search of a model through which artists might organize the expansiveness of the human spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Bellen is a sensualist with a taste for vernacular as refined as C.D. Wright's…—Bellen's giddy, insouciant renderings of our thickly mythic polis seem fresh, and appear to create their author from the tactile fragments of the text.\"— \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eMartine Bellen\u003c\/b\u003e 's \u003ci\u003eTales of Murasaki \u003c\/i\u003e won the 1999 National Poetry Series Award. She lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFor the Saturday Evening Girls' Pottery Club\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlease, oh please, spread something sweet\u003cbr\u003e Over my shredded wheat\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat rests upon this yellow plate,\u003cbr\u003e fired in its biscuit state.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMystic swastika hands abound,\u003cbr\u003e Fortune, luck, well-being found,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd bowls with bands of ducks\u003cbr\u003e and trees, ring around the ABCs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHand-thrown pots incised in ink;\u003cbr\u003e Still-soft clay initials sink.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlease, today, come sip some tea\u003cbr\u003e with small designs, each cup's jolie,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe harmony lies not in line\u003cbr\u003e But deeper in the object's rhyme.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eMagic Musee for Joseph Cornell\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003e(excerpt)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe, who's overconscious of her cage\u003cbr\u003e Formed from heat, moisture, frost, concealment,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow it drips, freezes, fogs\u003cbr\u003e How it forms columnar cracks gashed with glass\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToward the blue peninsula, gravity flight\u003cbr\u003e The visible half of reflection\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAttempting to obtain the solidity of an object\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOr to remove the clothing of sound, genealogical anxiety,\u003cbr\u003e Disrobing at the hotel Eden\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInventing a way in\u003cbr\u003e To that which is built over concept\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003ePochahontas\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003e(excerpt)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToo far away to be\u003cbr\u003e seen singly, they come\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether. The coat-wearing\u003cbr\u003e People. They come\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn floating isles. Carry\u003cbr\u003e Thunder sticks. They look\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor back seas where clove\u003cbr\u003e And mulberry grow. They come\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom beyond the gr\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47053083345136,"sku":"9781556591570","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556591570_p0.jpg?v=1763756803","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556591570","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}