{"product_id":"9781612774541","title":"Trying to Speak","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of the 2004 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The voice [in Anele Rubin’s poems] is so new, and yet the movement is so artful, subtle, and modest—there are never any theatrics in these poems. They never yowl, Pay attention to me! . . . Rubin is on the same wave-length with Tomas Tranströmer and Yehuda Amichai. . . . The emotional range of her poems, like theirs, is enormous, as is the range of locales, many of which I know well, and yet in \u003cem\u003eTrying to Speak\u003c\/em\u003e, they appear with a clarity that had eluded me.”\u003cem\u003e— Philip Levine, Judge\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Anele Rubin’s poems illuminate an astonishing range of emotional experience. Visual, tactile, simple and complex, her words lure you from poem to poem—sometimes exquisite, sometimes austere, always original.”\u003cem\u003e— Ruth Stone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is a powerful and beautifully lyrical book of great wisdom, whose theme is emotional resurrection.”\u003cem\u003e— Toi Derricotte\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kent State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134177951984,"sku":"9781612774541","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781612774541_p0.jpg?v=1763849283","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781612774541","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}