{"product_id":"carter-sharon-quiver","title":"Carter, Sharon: Quiver","description":"\u003cp\u003eTebot Bach, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: December 3, 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \"Sharon Carter's poems reveal an astonishing sensibility, a voice that probes the intimate life of the body --personal, cultural, history itself-- with the exactness of a scalpel. The heart stutters on, she tells us, and she would know. As a physician, she became attuned to the crack and groan of the human body: illness and deathmrising like birdsong from the throat; women in labor; fissures on an iced-over lake like the blight of a mammogram. Her meditations are nuanced, droll, clear sighted; alert to the marvels of the earth and its ruin; layered with bravado, bees, and longing. Women do this, she affirms: deliver babies, make poems, resurrect the dead. I find myself standing back with admiration. 'May light from the farthest galaxy\/arrive before too long,' she writes. Amen.\"--KATHRYN HUNT, author of Long Way Through Ruin \"Sharon Carter's poems honor the fragility of our flesh, our bones and our psyches. Whether about treating a young boy's infected finger ('A red line reaches for his armpit\/For his life') or considering blame ('On winter nights when coyotes sob\/among the pines\/and the moon never rises'), about a loss in pregnancy ('How to be grateful for what is\/than struggle over what never was'), or footsteps ('our footsteps clatter in couplets'), they are masterfully astute and, above all, honest. Sharon Carter's collection displays the feat of a fine poet who meets one's life on its own terms and reaches in to evoke the universal human experience.\"--SHEILA BENDER, author of A New Theology: Turning to Poetry in a Time of Grief Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40476046524439,"sku":"9781939678850","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/9781939678850.jpg?v=1673471090","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/carter-sharon-quiver","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}