{"product_id":"bone-map-poems-paperback","title":"Bone Map: Poems - 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\u003eSara Eliza Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMartha Collins\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eMartha Collins\u003c\/b\u003e (Notes by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"These poems, like light, clarify even as they pierce.\" --\u003cem\u003ePUBLISHERS WEEKLY\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected for the National Poetry Series by Martha Collins, Sara Eliza Johnson's stunning, deeply visceral first collection pulls shards of tenderness from a world on the verge of collapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere violence and terror infuse the body, the landscape, and dreams: a handful of blackberries offered from bloodied arms, bee stings likened to pulses of sunlight, a honeycomb of marrow exposed. \"All moments will shine if you cut them open. \/ Will glisten like entrails in the sun.\" With figurative language that makes long, associative leaps, and with metaphors and images that continually resurrect themselves across poems, \u003cem\u003eBone Map\u003c\/em\u003e builds and transforms its world through a locomotive echo--a regenerative force--that comes to parallel the psychic quest for redemption that unfolds in its second half. The result is a deeply affecting composition that establishes Sara Eliza Johnson as a vital new voice in American poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNational Poetry Series and Rona Jaffe Award winner \u003cb\u003eSara Eliza Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e has published poems in \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNew England Review\u003c\/i\u003e, among many others publications. She is the Vice Presidential Fellow in creative writing at the University of Utah. She lives in Salt Lake City. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartha Collins\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of six collections of poetry and three books of co-translations from the Vietnamese. She founded the Creative Writing Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston and for ten years served as the Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College. Currently editor-at-large for \u003ci\u003eFIELD\u003c\/i\u003e and an editor for Oberlin College Press, she lives in Cambridge, MA.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 16, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351100866809,"sku":"9781571314697","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/dnROSWJrUVZrS1Ewcnl0aEZTOEtFZz09.webp?v=1769795157","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/bone-map-poems-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}