{"product_id":"9781882295395","title":"The Wind, Master Cherry, The Wind","description":"\u003cp\u003eHaunting and spare, \u003ci\u003eThe Wind, Master Cherry, The Wind \u003c\/i\u003eis obsessed with fate’s fickle nature. Propelled by internal rhyme, these lyric poems draw on fairy tales and fables, stories from the Bible and from Carlo Collodi’s \u003ci\u003ePinocchio\u003c\/i\u003e, their characters blown hither and thither by mythic winds—but -inevitably, toward an awareness of mortality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside the Dog-Fish\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWide as the church, the sea, the cavern,\u003cbr\u003ehard as a rock, a tree, a geyser, tight as the spot of birth, hot as the furnace,\u003cbr\u003eserpent, witch, plain as the ego, primitive,\u003cbr\u003etomb, loose as a swallow’s whirling torso,\u003cbr\u003efiery vertebra—madre terribile, mother of agony, atony, urge, providing a passage,\u003cbr\u003ea sabbath, excuse, symbol of charm gone darkly sour, emotional windbag pricked by the light of the luna cornuta,\u003cbr\u003espitting up trinkets and bottles of rum,\u003cbr\u003eand pages of books, and chunks of men.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mark Strand describes Edward Hopper’s work as being informed by two imperatives, one that urges us to continue and the other that compels us to stay. Such is the experience of reading \u003ci\u003eThe Wind, Master Cherry, The Wind\u003c\/i\u003e, Larissa Szporluk’s demanding and brilliant new book: we are both urged -forward and held back by its mysterious intellection. -Szporluk’s work is about meaning: what can be known and what cannot be, what can be divulged and what must be withheld. \u003ci\u003eThe Wind, Master Cherry, The Wind\u003c\/i\u003e is fraught with such taut pleasures. This is poetry both luscious and rigorous.\"—Lynn Emanuel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alice James Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054210531568,"sku":"9781882295395","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781882295395_p0.jpg?v=1763604141","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781882295395","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}