{"product_id":"the-life-you-gave-me-paperback","title":"The Life You Gave Me - 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\u003eClaire Drucker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the striking and profoundly tender collection, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Life You Gave Me, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e Claire Drucker skillfully probes what it means to be a daughter, a mother, and an occupant of a climate in crisis. There is devastating loss and grief in lines such as, \"What am I left holding? Who am I now?\" and also a buoying of something sweeter: \"jade hues,\" \"apple heaven on our lips,\" \"shared comfort of cool, sun-kissed skin.\" I keep returning to these poems, moved by the way they chart the terrain of love, identity, and renewal. This is a capacious and wise book that reckons with the indelible nature of ancestry, the fragility of a fractured democracy, and the community and meaning found when \"we lean in with love, for any kind\/of freedom.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Emily Jern-Miller, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou Are Not a Bird \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems in Claire Drucker's collection \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Life You Gave Me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e offer readers \"a new kind of stillness, \/a new kind of alive.\" The poet's voice calls us to attention with compassion and deep tenderness for a world ravaged by fire and floods, splintered by politics and pandemic, braving grief and love and loss. Through all, the poet reaches back in time to the Holocaust memories of immigrant grandparents and forward to the immanent devastation of our planetary home. But always the force of language roots us in the miraculous \u003ci\u003enow, \u003c\/i\u003e with \"change, \/that sly beast, \/always the only\/\/hook we can hang our coats on.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Terry Ehret, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eLucky Break\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eNight Sky Journey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClaire's Drucker's poetry collection \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Life You Gave Me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is a love letter to three beloveds: her late mother, her daughter, and the natural world. Each poem sizzles with precise, well-considered language and sensory images that made me sigh and moan by turns. Her subjects span the fraught relationship with her mother, wildfires, visits to the beach, Covid life, and more. In the poem \"Apple Juicing,\" she writes, \"even the wasps are doing what they should, \/ their legs sticky with sugar, languid\/ and drowning in the garnet liquid.\" This is a work of depth, beauty, and many moods, one to savor and reread.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Sandra Anfang, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinishing School\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (Kelsay Books, 2023)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 108\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 20, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47352250827001,"sku":"9781639804443","price":31.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/IvFdDWg29f9781639804443.webp?v=1769805819","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-life-you-gave-me-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}