{"product_id":"9781556595295","title":"Terrible Blooms","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"[Melissa Stein’s] sentences are beautifully choreographed; they start and stop the motion of her poems with a nearly invisible, effortless authority.” —Mark Doty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Stein’s] electric apprehensions throb with this nearly preverbal knowing. They are rough as a hound’s tongue. . . . Stein is a new poet of the first order.\" —Molly Peacock\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ms. Stein reminds us that there is no honey—rough, or otherwise—without the sting.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this lush, disturbing second collection from Melissa Stein, exquisite images are salvaged from harm and survival. Set against the natural world’s violence—both ordinary and sublime—pain shines jewel-like out of these poems, illuminating what lovers and families conceal. Stein uses her gifts for persona and lyric richness to build worlds that are vivid, intricate, tough, sexy, and raw: \"over and over \/\/ life slapping you in the face \/ till you’re newly burnished \/ flat-out gasping and awake.” Breathless with risk and redemption, \u003ci\u003eTerrible blooms\u003c\/i\u003e shows how loss claims us and what we reclaim.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eQuarry\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs you slept \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was thinking about the quarry,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eabout light going deeper\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einto earth, into rock, the hurt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof light hitting layers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat should be hidden,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat should be buried,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand how when it rained\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor a long time that absence filled\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewith suffering, and we swam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eMelissa Stein\u003c\/b\u003e ’s debut collection \u003ci\u003eRough Honey\u003c\/i\u003e won the APR\/Honickman First Book Prize. She holds an MA in creative writing from the University of California at Davis, and is a freelance editor and writer in San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056651026672,"sku":"9781556595295","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556595295_p0.jpg?v=1763756176","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556595295","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}