{"product_id":"beautiful-machinery-paperback","title":"Beautiful Machinery - 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\u003eWendy Degroat\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWendy DeGroat's \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Machinery\u003c\/i\u003e is a fine collection of intelligent, witty and moving poetry. She is direct without ever being simple. Her ear is excellent and she creates webs of sound. She writes love poems that are sensual and never sentimental. These poems bring you in contact with someone you want to know.\u003cbr\u003e-Marge Piercy, award-winning author of a memoir, 17 novels, and 19 books of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eMade in Detroit \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReading Wendy DeGroat's poetry makes me think of the phrase, \"daily bread.\" Precise imagery, the joy of internal rhymes, and the light touch of formality are abundant in these poems. Attuned to the music of spoken word, DeGroat's lyricism and her sense of connection to the natural world, to the \"beautiful machinery\" of the beloved's body, provide substance and sustenance for the heart, for the imagination.\u003cbr\u003e-Janice Gould, author of \u003ci\u003eDoubters and Dreamers, \u003c\/i\u003e and the forthcoming chapbook, \u003ci\u003eThe Force of Gratitude\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWendy DeGroat's \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Machinery\u003c\/i\u003e draws its title from \"Running Late,\" a playful and beautifully wrought poem about the body's wonders, yet the book maps not just the body. It expands to cover the difficult territory of marriage, divorce, sexuality, feminism, and new love-all with the same tender honesty of the title poem. In \"Ode to Spiders\" she writes, \"Webs etch-a-sketched across the deck, \/ watch them cast lines, ride the wind.\" DeGroat has etch-a-sketched her own lines across traditional themes-and they merit your careful attention.\u003cbr\u003e-Sierra Golden, author of \u003ci\u003eAristotle's Lantern\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe female body, that \"beautiful machinery,\" is Wendy DeGroat's subject. It is the \"lit wick flaring\" or the tingle of taut nipples that makes it so \"hard\/to get ready for work.\" In language luscious and liquid, these poems invite the reader to join her in wonder and praise.\u003cbr\u003e-Kim Roberts, Co-Editor, \u003ci\u003eBeltway Poetry Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 52\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.11 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 24, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47748915396857,"sku":"9780997914979","price":13.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/X9vms8GQOb9780997914979.webp?v=1775547956","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/beautiful-machinery-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}