{"product_id":"groaning-and-singing-paperback-2","title":"Groaning and Singing - 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\u003eDiane Kistner\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJudy Kronenfeld\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOur memory is the only help that is left to them.\u003c\/i\u003e Theodor Adorno's words, the epigraph of Judy Kronenfeld's poem, \"Saving the Dead,\" epitomize a central theme of her elegiac, yet life-affirming collection that would prevent memory from drifting \"into the dilating voids of space.\" \u003ci\u003eGroaning and Singing\u003c\/i\u003e invokes ancestors known and unknown and evokes the stories of parents and wider family in the particularity that demonstrates the truths and gifts of their lives. It evokes communities: the urban lonely, the women, \"blotched \/ and spotted, with our walkers \/ and canes,\" gathered in \"Shearly Beloved,\" even the sufferers of the \"incandescently unimaginable\" pain of history-violence, oppression, disease. But also present is the \u003ci\u003enow\u003c\/i\u003e of gratefulness: for \"morning, morning! \/ commonplace and miraculous,\" for sudden joy, \"like dripping fistfuls of sequin confetti \/ flung into the air and hanging for a moment \/ crackling like fireworks.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.18 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 07, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47352551899385,"sku":"9781952593222","price":21.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/eWJXVlJXOVdqQVBRdlZuOVFFczUyZz09_4416f450-7df8-456a-9467-8e351ed7239e.webp?v=1769811245","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/groaning-and-singing-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}