{"product_id":"equi-elaine-ripple-effpb","title":"Equi, Elaine: Ripple Effect","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoffee House Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: April 1, 2007\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Elaine Equi's narrow lines are like the rungs of a ladder that one ascends while one is descending them. It's a motion like that in Wang Wei's lines, 'Stars \/ float up \/ toward dawn, ' which she quotes in her cento, 'Wang Wei's Moon.' Or, as she beautifully puts it, 'Discreetly a breeze enters the room.'\"--John Ashbery\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRipple Effect\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eshowcases thirty years of Elaine Equi's investigations into our cultural obsessions. Vivid, savvy, and accessible, her poems can transform almost anything--a list, a diary entry, advertising speak--into sophisticated, germane elixirs of pop culture and high art. Widely published, these poems have appeared in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The American Poetry Review,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand numerous volumes of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41624969150487,"sku":"9781566891974","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/71gz6hKcfeL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1746222231","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/equi-elaine-ripple-effpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}