{"product_id":"9781556593857","title":"The Book of Hours","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Marianne Boruch's work has the wonderful, commanding power of true attention.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[H]er patience, her willingness to wait for the film of familiarity to slip, allows her to see what is there with a jeweler's sense of facet and flaw.\"—\u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEndearingly strange, unsentimental, and uniquely structured, in true Rilkean fashion \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Hours\u003c\/i\u003e questions the meaning and significance of everything from the flaws of human interaction to perfect posture. Unrelenting honesty and exacting description are coupled with the trials of a dying mother, saint shadows, birds, and \"shit drying to chalk.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy mother's body to wires, to tubes and their liquid, days she turned toward me or away, winter but so much sun from car to door. I followed it past nurses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eat their station talking movies, who's good in one and not the other. Gown tied at the back and neck, she slept beside a window. I wedged my chair there, reading,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elooking up, reading,—who knows what I read—her legs bruised, thin, arms battered by the doctor's needle. Her face. Can I say this plainly now? There was light\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas she grew less. She drifted to it.\u003cbr\u003eI'm not hungry, not religious, I'm in a spot,\u003cbr\u003eshe told me one afternoon then closed her eyes to that radiance again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarianne Boruch\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in Chicago and earned a masters degree from the University of Massachusetts. She teaches at Purdue University and at Warren Wilson College. She lives in West Lafayette, Indiana.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056650764528,"sku":"9781556593857","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556593857_p0.jpg?v=1763758083","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556593857","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}