{"product_id":"vollmer-judith-the-sound-boat-new-and-selected","title":"Vollmer, Judith: The Sound Boat: New and Selected","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUniversity of Wisconsin Press, paperback\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication Date: April 26th, 2022\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher Marketing: Judith Vollmer's sixth collection explores human voices and geographies, stories and mysteries, and natural phenomena inside urban spaces. Her lyrical narratives, character portraits, locational investigations, and choral fragments often emerge from physical objects and from green and\/or ruined cityscapes. Vollmer's home city, Pittsburgh, and its sister-locations within Italy and Poland, undergird her attention to orientation and perception at work in her poems' acutely visual studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFeaturing twenty-one new and fifty-seven selected poems from her earlier volumes-- \u003ci\u003eThe Apollonia Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Water Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReactor\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Door Open to the Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLevel Green\u003c\/i\u003e-- \u003ci\u003eThe Sound Boat\u003c\/i\u003e reveals Vollmer's devotion to examining place and space to uncover poetry that touches emotions related to wandering physical and emotional realms: some familial and deeply personal, some unknowable. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOld city, I've come East for your long day and endless night:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003edown in the street, between the turtle fountain and the iron head\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe party shouts and sings, sweats and snakes, swells into a throb\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eor momentum of sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e--Excerpt from \"The Sound Boat\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40283531968535,"sku":"9780299336943","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/ibg.common.titledetail_cbb80eca-130b-424c-a7a1-bf38a427e85a.gif?v=1662352465","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/vollmer-judith-the-sound-boat-new-and-selected","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}