{"product_id":"asperity-street-paperback-4","title":"Asperity Street - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGail White\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAsperity Street, \u003c\/em\u003e Gail White's most balanced poetry collection, explores the breadth of human existence with cutting wit, irreverence, keen intelligence, and an uncommon mix of empathy and asperity. Besides the cynical or the lighthearted, which are hallmarks of White's work, there is a newfound earnestness and gravity in these poems in their survey and interrogation of the human condition. White journeys the span from nursery to hospice--in between, she navigates the prom, family occasions, mating, gossip, and money matters with masterful formal dexterity. This is a collection that rewards the reader with a thoroughly entertaining and illuminating experience.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eASPERITY STREET: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn her remarkable collection, \u003cem\u003eAsperity Street, \u003c\/em\u003e Gail White takes on the whole sweep of existence. The street becomes the road of a lifetime, beginning with a Southern childhood and ending with a hospice finale. Laconic, ironic and comic, White's drily resourceful, wickedly companionable voice takes aim on patrimony, matrimony, religion, money and the myth that assumes we choose our lives. With her sublime linguistic choreography, these poems dance to complex metrical tunes. We feel and hear them pulse with equal parts sympathy and vitriol. In Gail White's capable hands, \u003cem\u003eAsperity Street\u003c\/em\u003e unfolds as a brilliant mural we can return to again and again, as the poet does-still vulnerable, and wiser each time.\u003cbr\u003e - Molly Peacock, 2014 Able Muse Book Award judge, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Paper Garden\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGail White has done it again: here is another collection by one of America's wittiest, most technically adept, funniest and most serious commentators on what it feels like to be human.\u003cbr\u003e - Rhina P. Espaillat (from the foreword), author of \u003cem\u003eHer Place in These Designs\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI looked forward to reading Gail White's new book of poems, \u003cem\u003eAsperity Street, \u003c\/em\u003e because I know she is one of America's funniest poets, so when I got the manuscript I sat down to read it immediately. I knew how much I would enjoy it. I was not disappointed. The first three sections of this four-part collection have wit and bon mots in good measure, socko endings, words I'd never seen in poems before, like \"cloaca\" or a made-up word ending, \"substituth,\" to satisfy a droll rhyme. But nothing prepared me for part four. Nothing procedural changed. The insights were as sharp as ever, the language exact and clear, the cleverness and dexterity with form as deft, the music as mesmerizing . . . but this was a serious poet I'd not encountered before: there was a deepening of vision, an enhancement of feeling, the rueful treatment of life and death took on a cutting edge that slices to the bone. Don't miss reading this book.\u003cbr\u003e - Lewis Turco, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Forms\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGail White\u003c\/strong\u003e has published three previous books of poetry \u003cem\u003e(The Price of Everything, Easy Marks\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Accidental Cynic)\u003c\/em\u003e and several chapbooks, the latest being \u003cem\u003eSonnets in a Hostile World.\u003c\/em\u003e She has edited three anthologies, including coediting \u003cem\u003eThe Muse Strikes Back.\u003c\/em\u003e Gail is widely published and her poetry has appeared in such journals as \u003cem\u003eMeasure, Raintown Review, First Things, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMezzo Cammin, \u003c\/em\u003e and in anthologies such as \u003cem\u003eVillanelles\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eKiller Verse, \u003c\/em\u003e both from Pocket Poets. Gail received the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award for 2012 and 2013. She lives with her husband and three cats in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003e Asperity Steet\u003c\/em\u003e is a special honoree in the 2014 Able Muse Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 98\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 31, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351932354809,"sku":"9781927409541","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/VlB4K1BNUW9xZHhTSXQ1T2ZiUDBrUT09_9cd538f8-fa85-47e6-8a64-cc37ac8308fc.webp?v=1769805263","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/asperity-street-paperback-4","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}