{"product_id":"9781619320482","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\u003cbr\u003eand their liquid, days she turned toward me\u003cbr\u003eor away, winter but so much sun\u003cbr\u003efrom car to door. I followed it past nurses\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eat their station talking movies, who's good\u003cbr\u003ein one and not the other. Gown tied\u003cbr\u003eat the back and neck, she slept beside\u003cbr\u003ea window. I wedged my chair there, reading,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003elooking up, reading,—who knows what\u003cbr\u003eI read—her legs bruised, thin, arms battered\u003cbr\u003eby the doctor's needle. Her face. Can I\u003cbr\u003esay this plainly now? There was light\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003eclosed her eyes to that radiance again.\u003c\/i\u003e\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","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151697363184,"sku":"9781619320482","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781619320482_p0.jpg?v=1763855497","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781619320482","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}