{"product_id":"pray-me-stay-eager-paperback-1","title":"Pray Me Stay Eager - 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 Doré Watson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are wonderful, witty, wise poems in love with language and singing the music of the world with all its pleasures and piquancies, its oddities and tragedies. Ellen Dor  Watson's vision is agile with quick shifts in direction and vivid juxtapositions. The poems in \u003ci\u003epray me stay eager\u003c\/i\u003e contain multitudes  --Ellen Bass\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA dreamy voice turns dark and gritty as Ellen Dor  Watson interrogates personal purpose in the face of looming mortality. Poems sway comfortably, fluidly through associative discourse, radiating and championing love and adoration, indulging in simple pleasures with high magnitude and deep resonance. These poems are musical and sing in a different register for Watson in her fifth collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEllen Dor  Watson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four full-length collections of poems, most recently \u003ci\u003eDogged Hearts\u003c\/i\u003e from Tupelo Press. Watson's journal appearances include \u003ci\u003eAPR, Tin House, Orion, Field, Ploughshares\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. Among her honors are a Rona Jaffe Writers Award, fellowships to the MacDowell Colony and to Yaddo, and a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship. Watson serves as poetry and translation editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Massachusetts Review\u003c\/i\u003e and core faculty at Drew University's Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Poetry and Translation. She is the director of the Poetry Center and the Poetry Concentration at Smith College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEllen Doré Watson is the author of four full-length collections of poems, most recently, \u003ci\u003eDogged Hearts\u003c\/i\u003e from Tupelo Press. Earlier works include \u003ci\u003eThis Sharpening\u003c\/i\u003e, also from Tupelo, and two from Alice James Books, \u003ci\u003eWe Live in Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLadder Music\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the New England\/New York award. Watson's journal appearances include \u003ci\u003eAPR, Tin House, Orion, Field, Ploughshares\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. Among her honors are a Rona Jaffe Writers Award, fellowships to the MacDowell Colony and to Yaddo, and a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship. She has translated nine volumes from Brazilian Portuguese, most recently \u003ci\u003eThe Mystical Rose\u003c\/i\u003e, from the UK poetry publisher Bloodaxe Books. Watson serves as poetry and translation editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Massachusetts Review\u003c\/i\u003e and core faculty at Drew University's Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Poetry and Translation. She is the director of the Poetry Center and the Poetry Concentration at Smith College.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 09, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351649960185,"sku":"9781938584688","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/MDZaZHI2QXljRzlMeExhRkdHOW0ydz09_9a192925-1b1a-4a75-a760-93e7a11baf4e.webp?v=1769800709","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/pray-me-stay-eager-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}