{"product_id":"the-book-of-hours-paperback-3","title":"The Book of Hours - 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\u003eMarianne Boruch\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Marianne Boruch's work has the wonderful, commanding power of true attention.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[H]er patience, her willingness to wait for the film of familiarity to slip, allows her to see what is there with a jeweler's sense of facet and flaw.\"--\u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEndearingly strange, unsentimental, and uniquely structured, in true Rilkean fashion \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Hours\u003c\/i\u003e questions the meaning and significance of everything from the flaws of human interaction to perfect posture. Unrelenting honesty and exacting description are coupled with the trials of a dying mother, saint shadows, birds, and \"shit drying to chalk.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy mother's body to wires, to tubes\u003cbr\u003eand their liquid, days she turned toward me\u003cbr\u003eor away, winter but so much sun\u003cbr\u003efrom car to door. I followed it past nurses \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eat their station talking movies, who's good\u003cbr\u003ein one and not the other. Gown tied\u003cbr\u003eat the back and neck, she slept beside\u003cbr\u003ea window. I wedged my chair there, reading, \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003elooking up, reading, --who knows what\u003cbr\u003eI read--her legs bruised, thin, arms battered\u003cbr\u003eby the doctor's needle. Her face. Can I\u003cbr\u003esay this plainly now? There was light \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eas she grew less. She drifted to it.\u003cbr\u003eI'm not hungry, not religious, I'm in a spot, \u003cbr\u003eshe told me one afternoon then\u003cbr\u003eclosed her eyes to that radiance again.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarianne Boruch\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in Chicago and earned a masters degree from the University of Massachusetts. She teaches at Purdue University and at Warren Wilson College. She lives in West Lafayette, Indiana.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarianne Boruch: Poet and essayist Marianne Boruch grew up in Chicago and received a BS from the University of Illinois and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts. She is the author of several collections of poetry, including \u003ci\u003ePoems New \u0026amp; Selected\u003c\/i\u003e(2004), which was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, two Pushcart Prizes, and the Terrence Des Pres Prize for Poetry. Boruch has taught at Purdue University since the inception of their MFA program, and she also teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Warren Wilson College. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 110\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 08, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47392060473593,"sku":"9781556593857","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/T8zo6s_CWT9781556593857_b38c40aa-d508-4d6b-8c3d-36ce76728dd8.webp?v=1770236616","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-book-of-hours-paperback-3","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}