{"product_id":"bachman-merle-thank-you-pb","title":"Bachman, Merle: Thank You for Being","description":"\u003cp\u003eWet Cement Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: May 12, 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: Working from a rich personal archive of letters, journals, and poems Bachman carries us into the questing journey of being a poet and a woman; what she calls, \"A slender proposition that supports a glittering weight.\"  This is a memoir as only a true poet can write, life reassembled and revisited in the light of old knowledge, and new.  From her roots in the Jewish community of Albany New York, to 1970's feminist houses in the Boston area, from her studies in Jerusalem to her studies with Adrienne Rich at Brandeis University, to a dozen places in between, the work is a cultural mirror of the lived experience of women poets in the last 40 years. Bachman writes with unfailing wit and warmth, interrogating her freedom, travel and the story-without-boundaries that is poetry itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40988141518871,"sku":"9798985620603","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/c0c789_c8c62f503a284a81980e7bde00814735_mv2.png?v=1710533511","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/bachman-merle-thank-you-pb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}