{"product_id":"9781935210696","title":"A Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Vibrant with the intensity of blues singers.\"—\u003ci\u003eFeminist Bookstore News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Patricia Spears Jones is cosmopolitan blues goddess alive on the wind stream of transnational homemade intimate gossip. Her poems are a highly effective antidote to living in a country where caring seems to have been placed on the Endangered Activities list.\"—David Rivard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Patricia Spears Jones reminds me of those wisecracking, foolproof women in the old films she so lovingly dissects—the ones whose deadsure, replenishing humor and never-fail good sense causes the audience to sit up and clap.\"—Cyrus Cassells\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"She has given us a world where music and brains are allowed to co-exist with instinct, where the lyric and the literal may dwell without eyeing the other with suspicion.\"—Cornelius Eady\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"The Perfect Lipstick\":\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt is why I appreciate my favorite shade of lipstick:\u003cbr\u003eSherry Velour.\u003cbr\u003eSounds like the name of a drag queen from the early seventies.\u003cbr\u003eOne of those strapping Black men who had enough of playing macho,\u003cbr\u003eput their feet in five-inch heels and made saints of Dinah Washington,\u003cbr\u003eRita Hayworth and a very young Nina Simone.\u003cbr\u003eSo, on goes this lipstick. Pretty for parties.\u003cbr\u003eFatal for festivals.\u003cbr\u003eSherry Velour and her hot discoveries:\u003cbr\u003elight above the fog,\u003cbr\u003ea toy ship.\u003cbr\u003eBlack men in sequined dresses and the click of new words in the new world where the most dangerous of dreams come true.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatricia Spears Jones \u003c\/b\u003ewas named by Essence.com as one of its \"40 Poets [They] Love\" in 2010.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"White Pine Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050325360880,"sku":"9781935210696","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781935210696_p0.jpg?v=1769897198","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781935210696","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}