{"product_id":"moses-schmitt-lena-true-mistapb","title":"Moses-Schmitt, Lena: True Mistakes","description":"\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Arkansas Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: March 14, 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn her debut collection \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrue Mistakes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the poet Lena Moses-Schmitt unleashes her powers of scrutiny on herself and on works of art to interrogate the essential nature of consciousness, identity, and time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the poet goes about daily life-taking long walks, painting at her desk, going to work, grappling with the deaths of friends, struggling with anxiety and depression-she ruminates on the boundaries between art and reality, grief and joy, living and imagining. For Moses-Schmitt, thought, like painting, is relentlessly high-stakes: \"I often think about things so hard \/ I kill them.\" And: \"Is it possible to paint myself so precisely \/ I disappear? Can I remember myself \/ so completely I'm erased?\" In the context of such ruminations, the poet's reflections on David Hockney's seminal pool paintings shimmer with sublimity and insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorking to turn \"mistakes\"-misperceptions, errors in life and in art-into sites of possibility and imagination instead of failure or confusion, Moses-Schmitt offers \"a truth for every reader,\" writes series editor Patricia Smith.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45630362943511,"sku":"9781682262702","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/81l9ACXqi5L._SL1500.jpg?v=1790286469","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/moses-schmitt-lena-true-mistapb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}