{"product_id":"9781889330556","title":"The Mystery of Meteors: Poems","description":"\u003cbr\u003eAfter a brilliant debut with \u003ci\u003eArmed Love\u003c\/i\u003e (Wesleyan, 1973) and \u003ci\u003eCome the Sweet By and By,\u003c\/i\u003e which won the inaugural Juniper Prize from the University of Massachusetts Press in 1975, Eleanor Lerman has kept silent for twenty-five years. Her new book breaks this silence with work every bit as inventive, audacious, and passionate as her first award- winning volumes.\u003cp\u003eCosmology, physics, ancient Egypt, alien abduction, the Internet, memory, archaeology, love: these are some of the subjects that find unlikely and original conflation in Lerman’s new collection of poems. Lerman’s new poems are like terminals where trains from many distant provinces of both the inner and outer worlds-thought, history, imagination, science, etc.-find meeting with weird and affable grace. They are intelligent but accessible. They are buoyant with a self-regarding wry humor. They bravely and unpretentiously grab hold of whatever is at hand as they approach and enter \"the deep desires that split the sky.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Eleanor Lerman is back, a different poet, quieter, older, ‘wiser,’ more earthly yet still brilliant, a coruscating daughter of the poet of the Seventies. What luck for American literature.\"-Richard Stern\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEleanor Lerman\u003c\/b\u003e was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1952. She is the author of two previous books of poetry, \u003ci\u003eArmed Love\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCome the Sweet By and By.\u003c\/i\u003e She has been nominated for a National Book Award, received the inaugural Juniper Prize from the University of Massachusetts Press, and was the recipient of a poetry grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She lives and works in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Mystery of Meteors, 3\u003cbr\u003e In the New School, 5\u003cbr\u003e The Book of What Is in the Duat, 7\u003cbr\u003e Flora Street, 9\u003cbr\u003e The Farm in Winter, 11\u003cbr\u003e Wild Wind, Green Tea, 13\u003cbr\u003e Office in a Small City, 14\u003cbr\u003e The Alchemist's Prayer\/ 16\u003cbr\u003e The Lesson of the Queen, 18\u003cbr\u003e Remote Viewing, 20\u003cbr\u003e The Strange Attractor, 22\u003cbr\u003e Hyannis, 24\u003cbr\u003e A California Story, 26\u003cbr\u003e The Outing, 28\u003cbr\u003e Dominion, 29\u003cbr\u003e To Montreal, 32\u003cbr\u003e Night Flight, 34\u003cbr\u003e Tornado Days, 36\u003cbr\u003e Missing Time, 38\u003cbr\u003e Hot Town, Sukiyaki, 40\u003cbr\u003e Blue Skies, Indiana, 42\u003cbr\u003e What the Dark-Eyed Angel Know\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarabande Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033130320112,"sku":"9781889330556","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781889330556_p0.jpg?v=1763608081","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781889330556","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}