{"product_id":"9781933517636","title":"Thunderbird","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"In lines that remind me of the way William Carlos Williams insisted that only the imagination gives us access to reality, Lasky's poems evoke a practice of living, as bloody and awful and lovely as living can ever be.\"—Julia Bloch, \u003ci\u003eBitch\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The beautiful thing about Lasky, in all her work, but particularly here, is her ability to create that same sense of earnestness, the sense that she is telling you a secret.\"—InDigest Magazine, InDigest Picks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGo, brave and gentle reader, with Dorothea Lasky to the \"purple motel \/ where the bird lives.\" Go with her, as you have willingly gone down the dark passages before, with her bare-faced poems for guidance. \u003ci\u003eThunderbird\u003c\/i\u003e 's controlled rage plunges into the black interior armed with nothing but guts and Lasky's own fiery heart to light the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eBaby of air\u003cbr\u003eYou rose into the mystical\u003cbr\u003eSide of things\u003cbr\u003eYou could no longer live with us\u003cbr\u003eWe put you in a little home\u003cbr\u003eWhere they shut and locked the door\u003cbr\u003eAnd at night\u003cbr\u003eYou blew out\u003cbr\u003eAnd went wandering . . . \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eDorothea Lasky\u003c\/b\u003e is also the author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Life\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAWE\u003c\/i\u003e , both from Wave Books. She lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061438890224,"sku":"9781933517636","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781933517636_p0.jpg?v=1763641141","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781933517636","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}