{"product_id":"9781936657322","title":"An Exaltation of Tongues","description":"\u003cp\u003e“The way Paul Fisher sees the world and writes about it is pure delight! \u003cem\u003eAn Exaltation of Tongues\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eis full of astounding images and the wisdom of his shaman voice – ‘\u003cem\u003efrom the green blood of grass \/ to the moon's missing half.\u003c\/em\u003e’ I love the nuances, the leaping alchemical word magic, and the vision in these poems – ‘\u003cem\u003esweet as stolen honey \/ ladled from the Great Bear's tongue.\u003c\/em\u003e’ I love the way his poems leap between worlds, and the transparency of emotion is stunning. Every line has the magic I have come to enjoy in Paul Fisher’s writing.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e~ Diane Frank, Author of \u003cem\u003eCanon for Bears and Ponderosa Pines\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Paul Fisher’s \u003cem\u003eAn Exaltation of Tongues\u003c\/em\u003e is accessible and then unusual, for it does not receive a spirit, speaking in tongues, unknowable and nourished somehow on high . . . Authority, instead, is given with such a light touch – to ‘my tongue’; to ‘your burnt tongue’; to ‘double-edged” and ‘severed tongues’. His poetry sustains affirmation in an unaffirming, unsustainable world.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e~ Judith Hall, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Promised Folly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Concrete Wolf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47048578269424,"sku":"9781936657322","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781936657322_p0.jpg?v=1763659458","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781936657322","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}