{"product_id":"indigo-paperback-14","title":"Indigo - 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\u003eEllen Bass\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Bass's work--about marriage and parenting, illness and recovery, small daily pleasures--cultivates an exuberance that's born of, and balanced by, close watchfulness.\" --\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A bold and passionate new collection... Intimacy is rarely conveyed as gracefully as in Bass's lustrous poems.\" --Booklist \u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eIndigo\u003c\/em\u003e, the newest collection by Ellen Bass, merges elegy and praise poem in an exploration of life's complexities. Whether her subject is oysters, high heels, a pork chop, a beloved dog, or a wife's return to health, Bass pulls us in with exquisite immediacy. Her lush and precisely observed descriptions allow us to feel the sheer primal pleasure of being alive in our own \"succulent skin,\" the pleasure of the gifts of hunger, desire, touch. In this book, joy meets regret, devotion meets dependence, and most importantly, the poet so in love with life and living begins to look for the point where the price of aging overwhelms the rewards of staying alive. Bass is relentless in her advocacy for the little pleasures all around her. Her gaze is both expansive and hyperfocused, celebrating (and eulogizing) each gift as it is given and taken, while also taking stock of the larger arc. She draws the lines between generations, both remembering her parents' lives and deaths and watching her own children grow into the space that she will leave behind. \u003cem\u003eIndigo\u003c\/em\u003e shows us the beauty of this cycle, while also documenting the deeply human urge to resist change and hang on to the life we have, even as it attempts to slip away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEllen Bass is co-author of the best-selling \u003cem\u003eThe Courage to Heal\u003c\/em\u003e (HarperCollins 2008), which has sold more than one million copies and has been translated into nine languages. She has also published several volumes of poetry, including \u003cem\u003eThe Human Line\u003c\/em\u003e (Copper Canyon, 2007), and her poems have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies, including \u003cem\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/em\u003e. A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she lives in Santa Cruz, and teaches in the MFA program at Pacific University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 64\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 07, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47352760074489,"sku":"9781556595752","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/V9vVysuDUo9781556595752.webp?v=1769815591","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/indigo-paperback-14","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}