{"product_id":"9781884800498","title":"The Radiant","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Cynthia Huntington's The Radiant, what is most tragic can, and often does, become beautiful. \"What\/ is memory? Who stays to mourn?\/ It seems we feel so much\/ and then we die. The marsh hawk\/ veers over the grass, listening.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoems about Multiple Sclerosis and domestic turmoil are never drowned in the rhetoric of complaint, but seized by language that is intense yet seeks the equilibrium of its own level: \"His loneliness is cold water. that makes rocks shine. Great stillness\/ where he is. Then, slowly, birds.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in The Radiant flow brutally from a scarred heart, from \"what grows hard, and cannot be repaired.\" But in the end these are prayers of thankfulness, prayers that transcend desire: \". . . we belong here, where no one is refused,\/ in the room we come to at last—immortal,\/ irreparable, beyond hope.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Four Way Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039219007728,"sku":"9781884800498","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781884800498_p0.jpg?v=1763605315","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781884800498","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}