{"product_id":"9781556592409","title":"Spectral Waves","description":"\u003cp\u003e“DeFrees is committed to rigorous, even ritualistic, forms and a dense economy and precision of language.”— \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrimming with characteristic charm and careful regard, Madeline DeFrees ranges in scope and scale from sonnets about Elvis, a poem-cycle about sculptor Henry Moore, and lyrics about cataracts. DeFrees’s poems are filled with daily encounters—birds outside the window, trips to the doctor, the plants in her well-tended garden—yet she brilliantly elevates these subjects beyond the personal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom “A Crown of Sonnets for ‘The King’”:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003e“D.O.A.”\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlthough the mourners know his fate is sealed they can’t give up on God, Who may come through.\u003cbr\u003e They cast about for something more to do:\u003cbr\u003e into Emergency, the patient’s wheeled.\u003cbr\u003e The human curtain parts. Aides leave the field to doctors who inject the heart and who start IV drips, then shock a time or two the organ grown so large with caring that it failed.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy are we working on this corpse? \u003ci\u003eThe nurse throws up her hands. The crew, shocked back to normal,\u003cbr\u003e admits discretion is the better part of valor.\u003cbr\u003e They’ll stare suspicion down, advise, rehearse the clothes that Elvis wears for his last formal.\u003cbr\u003e Up to this moment, blue was his favorite color.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 17, \u003cb\u003eMadeline DeFrees\u003c\/b\u003e entered a Catholic convent and remained a nun for 38 years. She has published nine volumes of poetry and has taught at universities and colleges throughout the United States. Her most recent book, \u003ci\u003eBlue Dusk\u003c\/i\u003e , won the Lenore Marshall\/ \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e prize. She lives in Seattle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055702262000,"sku":"9781556592409","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556592409_p0.jpg?v=1763755917","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556592409","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}