{"product_id":"9781889330495","title":"Summons: Poems","description":"\u003cbr\u003eIn her fourth book of poems, Deborah Tall serves up, as Charles Simic remarks, \"a huge feast of words and images.\" Spare, charged, eloquently complex, her poems distill emotion to its precipitate. In \"Cottage by the Beach, Normandy,\" loneliness is this: \u003ci\u003eA dozen tulips\/erect in the centerpiece,\/ hold their allotment of empty air.\u003c\/i\u003e In \"Winter Solstice,\" war yields, \u003ci\u003eA hillside of markers,\/a showroom of tombs.\/The bushes fruited with ice.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSummons\u003c\/i\u003e is a call to speak out—in the face of violence, cruelty, and loss—and a summoning up of the forces of nature and humanity that console.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The art of prosody, of which Deborah Tall is a master, is a jeweler’s art. It is about ascertaining the weight of words, measuring each one of them in turn against silence and time. . . . As we read, line by line, sounds turn into music, words and images grow in meaning. If you believe this is what \u003ci\u003eall\u003c\/i\u003e poets do anyway, you are wrong. Only the best of them know how to make us reread with increasing pleasure a few lines of poetry.\"—from the foreword by Charles Simic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarketing Plans:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eo Author tour NYC, Boston, NY State and New England\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eo Advertisements in key literary and trade magazines\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeborah Tall\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three previous books of poems (most recently \u003ci\u003eCome Wind, Come Weather\u003c\/i\u003e from State Street Press) and two books of nonfiction: \u003ci\u003eThe Island of the White Cow: Memories of an Irish Island\u003c\/i\u003e (Atheneum, 1986) and \u003ci\u003eFrom Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place\u003c\/i\u003e (Knopf, 1993). Tall is the editor of the \u003ci\u003eSeneca Review\u003c\/i\u003e and co-editor of the anthology \u003ci\u003eThe Poet’s Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e (Norton, 1995). She has taught writing and literature at Hobart and William Smith Colleges since 1982 and lives in Ithaca, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarabande Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033105875184,"sku":"9781889330495","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781889330495_p0.jpg?v=1763607700","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781889330495","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}