{"product_id":"germain-carmen-life-drawing","title":"Germain, Carmen: Life Drawing","description":"\u003cp\u003eMoonPath Press\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: August 1, 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The poems in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLife Drawing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecome from a painterly perspective that loves the colors and textures of life. Germain's sensibility is generous: 'I rummage things of childhood\/ to find lost blessings' and 'What is given astonishes.' A central tension of the book is the way she grapples with life's hard paradoxes: truth versus embellishing, salt versus sugar, blood and bone versus soul. It's a poetry that embraces the ordinary and sees art as a way to both praise, and make sense of, the world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Joseph Powell, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Slow Subtraction: ALS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLife Drawing\u003c\/em\u003e, Carmen Germain captures moments with a painter's eye and an appetite avid for delight: 'dawn blooming vermilion, ' unripe blackberries 'green as Chinese \/ porcelain, ' a moon that rises 'like a cabbage.' In 'The Fixed Stars, ' van Gogh works 'with nothing in his belly but milk \/ and dry bread.' Everywhere, Germain offers us the rewards of such devotion, as in 'Before Time': 'my hand in a woman's handprint \/ from the eleventh century, my fingerbones \/ in place of hers.'\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Bethany Reid, author of\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSparrow\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40282796359703,"sku":"9781936657681","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/ibg.common.titledetail_1ea1fab7-43c9-4c1e-924b-558fbf74eab6.gif?v=1662248222","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/germain-carmen-life-drawing","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}