{"product_id":"pruning-burning-bushes-paperback","title":"Pruning Burning Bushes - 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\u003eSarah M. Wells\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn pruning, a decision must be made whether to \"either slowly hollow, heartwood rotting outward, \/ or grow from green into a fiery blaze in autumn.\" Pruning Burning Bushes is a collection of poems that explores the intersection of the natural and spiritual worlds with the personal and familial worlds. The book wrestles with this decision--to grow or to rot. Walking from the valley to the highest summit and back down into the depths of the canyon riverbed, the poems travel through the author's childhood filled with family and farm life, new marriage life, and subsequent miscarriages, the births of her children and deaths of relatives, and walking in the quiet waters of faith, sometimes raging and sometimes rejoicing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah M. Wells serves as the Administrative Director of the low-residency MFA program at Ashland University, where she is also Managing Editor for \u003ci\u003eRiver Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e and the\u003ci\u003e Ashland Poetry Press\u003c\/i\u003e. Her poems and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eAlimentum, Ascent, Christianity \u0026amp; Literature, JAMA, Measure, New Ohio Review, Nimrod, Poetry East, River Teeth, Rock \u0026amp; Sling\u003ci\u003e, and elsewhere. Her essay \"Those Summers, These Days\" was included as a notable essay in the next \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e anthology. She lives with her husband and three children in Ashland, Ohio. You can follow Sarah at www.sarahmwells.com.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\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 0.2 x 8.8 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48290408366329,"sku":"9781620323304","price":16.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/vcx5oIla_D9781620323304.webp?v=1776283471","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/pruning-burning-bushes-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}