{"product_id":"the-mood-ring-diaries-paperback-2","title":"The Mood Ring Diaries - 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\u003eJessica D. Thompson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mood Ring Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, Jessica Thompson crafts a solar system orbited by iron lungs and Marlboro men, nightgowns and cradlesongs, and \"ghost horses with red manes.\" She shifts swiftly between cold metal and heat lightning, chasing beauty through language, which she captures in potent images like \"bible-black eyes\" and \"women who spin aimlessly inside black holes.\" Predominantly unfolding in controlled couplets, these poems pulse with a feral urgency as they explore desire, myth, and matriarchy, unfurling their song and strength \"into a darkening sky.\" Like a lullaby for the shipwrecked and silenced, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mood Ring Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e charts a constellation of both warning and welcome.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimone Muench\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWolf Centos\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Under Hum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJessica D. Thompson's startling new collection, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mood Ring Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, is both grounded in earth knowledge and wondrous in starry possibility. The journey of cradle to crone imaginatively framed by diary entries of five personas, Thompson's imagery is magical and otherworldly. These fierce women, \"wearing the white of the sacrificed,\" yet each a wildling in her way, remind us to be \"sky daughters,\" to gather the kindling for making our own language, to braid ourselves into bee and bark and leaf, to ascend ever higher.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eLinda Parsons\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eValediction: Poems and Prose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThompson's skill as a writer is like a sleight-of-hand, her poetry a subtle yet profoundly rendered vehicle for personal metamorphosis. The alchemy of her language is that it renders the familiar as mythic, the small moments from youth as sensually epic: \"our tongues tasting \/ of honeysuckle and heat lightning.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eMindy Kronenberg\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, poet, professor at SUNY Empire State University, editor of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eOberon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003epoetry magazine, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eDismantling the Playground\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eOpen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 58\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.14 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 27, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47354266452217,"sku":"9781639806928","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/rtFlgzjN0I9781639806928_577f1dcb-367f-4e2e-84e2-37815760e761.webp?v=1769833403","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-mood-ring-diaries-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}