{"product_id":"life-drawing-paperback-1","title":"Life Drawing - 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\u003eCarmen Germain\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The poems in \u003cem\u003eLife Drawing\u003c\/em\u003e come from a painterly perspective that loves the colors and textures of life. Germain's sensibility is generous: 'I rummage things of childhood\/ to find lost blessings' and 'What is given astonishes.' A central tension of the book is the way she grapples with life's hard paradoxes: truth versus embellishing, salt versus sugar, blood and bone versus soul. It's a poetry that embraces the ordinary and sees art as a way to both praise, and make sense of, the world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Joseph Powell, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Slow Subtraction: ALS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eLife Drawing\u003c\/em\u003e, Carmen Germain captures moments with a painter's eye and an appetite avid for delight: 'dawn blooming vermilion, ' unripe blackberries 'green as Chinese \/ porcelain, ' a moon that rises 'like a cabbage.' In 'The Fixed Stars, ' van Gogh works 'with nothing in his belly but milk \/ and dry bread.' Everywhere, Germain offers us the rewards of such devotion, as in 'Before Time': 'my hand in a woman's handprint \/ from the eleventh century, my fingerbones \/ in place of hers.'\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Bethany Reid, author of\u003cem\u003e Sparrow\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\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 0.23 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174146130169,"sku":"9781936657681","price":17.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/dHIvbWtCamE3T1RNQ1RsZ0xXakM4Zz09_59c587e3-289b-4e7c-a509-960a1ce58235.webp?v=1767640089","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/life-drawing-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}