{"product_id":"9781632100160","title":"Pictures in the Firestorm, Second Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePictures in the Firestorm\u003c\/i\u003e is wide in scope, luminous in detail,\u003cbr\u003e and elegant in craft. Lauren Rusk's mastery of nuance and tone allows her to write with equal grace about 1960s San Francisco and about the enduring challenge and grief of a Holocaust museum. Her poems range from evocative glimpses of the momentary to complex meditations on art and its relationship to the world. Rusk's passion for visual art includes the sometimes difficult history of its making; her subtle wit and intelligence move in and out of the frame, always with one eye on the world outside the gallery, where too often conditions of injustice and violence prevail. Lauren Rusk does not see an opposition between art and social concerns, but embraces them both. The result is a book of poems at once fluid and urgent -- an impressive achievement,\u003cbr\u003e and in these days, especially, a crucial one. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBetsy Sholl\u003c\/b\u003e, Poet Laureate of Maine, author of \u003ci\u003eLate Psalm,\u003cbr\u003e Don't Explain, The Red Line\u003c\/i\u003e, and other collections \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen joy allies itself with the sort of uncompromisingly accurate descriptions found in Lauren Rus's \u003ci\u003ePictures in the Firestorm\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cbr\u003e the result is an immensely readable poetry, irrepressible in feeling and unoppressible in spirit. This exceptional first book takes nothing less than wholeness from intelligence. Its speaker is always game,\u003cbr\u003e sometimes grave, sometimes blissful, and even in the midst of our dark history ever ready for Òthis journey to encounter . . . multitudes,\u003cbr\u003e belongings. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Olsen\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eTrouble Lights, Vision of a Storm\u003cbr\u003e Cloud, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHand of God and a Few Bright Flowers \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Lauren Rusk's carefully wrought poems let us know, \"Stories last in the dust.\" Here is a poet whose attention to the world seems amply rewarded by a language so graceful it practically glows.\u003cbr\u003e Rusk stands at the curious junctures of ancient tales at the very moments they're matriculating into 21st century passions, pastimes,\u003cbr\u003e and resonant regrets. Rusk's poems are made all the bolder, clearer,\u003cbr\u003e and dearer by how much of the bold, the clear, and the dear she allows in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNance Van Winckel\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eBeside Ourselves, After a Spell,\u003cbr\u003e The Dirt\u003c\/i\u003e, and other collections\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plain View Press, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032156356848,"sku":"9781632100160","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781632100160_p0.jpg?v=1763673640","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781632100160","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}