{"product_id":"small-comforts-paperback-3","title":"Small Comforts - 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\u003eLadeana Mullinix\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaDeana Mullinix is a native Kansan, now living in northwest Arkansas. She is a graduate of the University of Kansas and Texas Woman's University. She is a Quaker, a retired occupational therapist, a Master Gardener, and a Master Naturalist. She has written poetry since junior high, but has only recently begun publishing her work.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach poem in LaDeana Mullinix's \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmall Comforts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e holds a story and a surprise. Like a magician, she leads you in one direction, then presto!-you land somewhere else. But there's so much more to her than playfulness. She's an original, a pure voice that speaks to us gently, her humor softening the edges of grief she knows well from her work as an occupational therapist and a friend to the elderly. She waves her wand of words over prairies, neighbors, horses, ducks, social causes . . . and scapula. Is she speaking about her own poetry in \"Sailing the Great Plains\" when she describes a team of Clydesdales \"whose feathery fetlocks tricked many \/ to think their light steps were not powerful\"? Read \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmall Comforts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and decide for yourself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eSuzanne Underwood Rhodes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, Arkansas Poet Laureate and author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Perfume of Pain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaDeana Mullinix's Quaker sensibilities were tempered by an upbringing on the Kansas prairie. Together, those two influences further shaped her sensibilities as a poet. Through her eyes, we see a world of challenge that she faces with uncompromising openness and clarity. It is a world of ice storms and lightning strikes, of loss and the incipient chill of autumn. But it is also a world of simple comforts that see us through it all: jonquils planted on the fresh grave of a pet dog, \"fresh cinnamon rolls warmed,\" and a \"white cotton sweater-light, but just enough.\" In this new collection, Mullinix offers us more than the simple comfort of lucid, well-written poems; she serves us lightning strikes of love to \"lighten the weight of sadness if we can\" and \"allow joy to alight on a heavy world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Blanchard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Pearl Diver's Daughter \u0026amp; Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eSLANT: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\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 0.15 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 20, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353901940985,"sku":"9781639806799","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/fUnmYthGpE9781639806799.webp?v=1769828760","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/small-comforts-paperback-3","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}