{"product_id":"in-code-paperback-2","title":"In Code - 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\u003eMaryann Corbett\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Code\u003c\/em\u003e was born out of Maryann Corbett's years of work for the Minnesota Legislature, with a nonpartisan office that mandated that she maintain a public silence about politics. In poems that go from elegiac to fiery to funny, she examines behind-the-scenes legislative labor and the people who do it, the tensions of working for government in a climate hostile to government, and the buildings and grounds that put a beautiful face on a history full of ambiguities. This well-honed collection, Corbett's fifth, reflects on doublespeak and public poses; on coworkers and commutes; on legalese, courts, and elections; on news and history; and at last on retirement--through poems masterfully deployed in a dazzling array of forms: including the prose poem, the sonnet, the ghazal, the villanelle, and the canzone. Maryann Corbett is a candid, wistful, purposeful, and meditative poet in command of her craft.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOf her years working for the Minnesota Legislature, Maryann Corbett writes in \u003cem\u003eRattle\u003c\/em\u003e: \"There was the frisson supplied by the constant presence of the media, the satisfaction of believing one's work served the public, the thrill of working with smart, motivated people, the pleasure of being surrounded by the striking buildings and gardens of the Capitol grounds, the sense of history. There was also the uncomfortable awareness that with every legislative session there are winners and losers, and that the same battles for justice are fought, and often lost, by the same people, year after year.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eIn Code\u003c\/em\u003e features poems that reflect on both those pleasures and that discomfort, as in these lines from \"Seven Little Poems about Making Laws\" \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Capitol café \u003cbr\u003e German proverbs, whitewashed since\u003cbr\u003e 1917, \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e are restored to view\u003cbr\u003e with bright applause. Old hatreds\u003cbr\u003e have new objects now.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR MARYANN CORBETT: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNed Balbo: \u003cem\u003e. . . an extraordinary poet.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tony Barnstone: \u003cem\u003e. . . metrical poetry infused with gorgeous imagery and the vernacular of our scientized world.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Richard Wilbur: \u003cem\u003e. . . accurate and delightful.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rhina P. Espaillat: \u003cem\u003e. . . every section touches me and keeps calling me back.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A.M. Juster: \u003cem\u003e. . . wit without meanness, warmth without sentimentality, and craft without pretension.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Geoffrey Brock: \u003cem\u003e. . . one of the best-kept secrets of American poetry.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Marilyn Taylor: \u003cem\u003e. . . poignant, perceptive, exquisitely formed poems . . . a poet to be genuinely grateful for.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Peter Campion: \u003cem\u003e. . . a poet of the first order.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Willis Barnstone: \u003cem\u003e. . . a newborn Robert Frost, with a wicked eye for contemporary life.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Susan McLean: \u003cem\u003e. . . a stunner.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaryann Corbett earned a doctorate in English in 1981, with a specialization in medieval literature and linguistics. She expected to be teaching \u003cem\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/em\u003e and Chaucer and the history of the English language. Instead, she spent almost thirty-five years working for the Minnesota Legislature, helping attorneys to write in plain English and coordinating the creation of finding aids for the law.\u003cbr\u003e She is the author of five books of poetry and is a past winner of the Richard Wilbur Award and the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. Her work is widely published in journals on both sides of the Atlantic and is included in anthologies like \u003cem\u003eMeasure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e2018.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 92\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.22 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 27, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47335809548537,"sku":"9781773490533","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/UC9oTlVVall2anZrRzdvMkExK3ZzQT09_fb4b2550-1b2e-4fc4-a8b8-ddadbca4d3fd.webp?v=1769663709","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/in-code-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}