{"product_id":"trapeze-paperback-3","title":"Trapeze - 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\u003eDeborah Digges\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese lush, rewarding reflections on a woman's passage into midlife are grounded in our intimacy with nature and mortality. Deborah Digges, now in her fifties, looks back in such poems as \"Boat\" to see younger mothers and their children, and ponders her own \"brilliant, trivial unmooring.\" As she wanders from the garden to the barn and into the woods, she finds her moods mirrored in the calendar of the seasons, making lush music of the materials at hand and accepting the seismic changes in her life with an appreciation for the incidental scraps of beauty she chances upon. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThroughout these luminous poems-which touch movingly on the illness and loss of her husband-Digges marvels at the brio with which we fling ourselves daringly into the night: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSee how the first dark takes the city in its arms\u003cbr\u003eand carries it into what yesterday we called the future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eO, the dying are such acrobats.\u003cbr\u003eHere you must take a boat from one day to the next, \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eor clutch the girders of the bridge, hand over hand.\u003cbr\u003eBut they are sailing like a pendulum between eternity and evening, \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ediving, recovering, balancing the air.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese lush, rewarding reflections on a woman's passage into midlife are grounded in our intimacy with nature and mortality. Deborah Digges, now in her fifties, looks back in such poems as \"Boat\" to see younger mothers and their children, and ponders her own \"brilliant, trivial unmooring.\" As she wanders from the garden to the barn and into the woods, she finds her moods mirrored in the calendar of the seasons, making lush music of the materials at hand and accepting the seismic changes in her life with an appreciation for the incidental scraps of beauty she chances upon. \u003cbr\u003eThroughout these luminous poems-which touch movingly on the illness and loss of her husband-Digges marvels at the brio with which we fling ourselves daringly into the night: \u003cbr\u003eSee how the first dark takes the city in its arms\u003cbr\u003eand carries it into what yesterday we called the future. \u003cbr\u003eO, the dying are such acrobats.\u003cbr\u003eHere you must take a boat from one day to the next, \u003cbr\u003eor clutch the girders of the bridge, hand over hand.\u003cbr\u003eBut they are sailing like a pendulum between eternity and evening, \u003cbr\u003ediving, recovering, balancing the air. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeborah Digges was born and raised in Missouri. She is the author of three books of poems. Her first book, \u003ci\u003eVesper Sparrows\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize from New York University. \u003ci\u003eLate in the Millennium\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1989, and \u003ci\u003eRough Music, \u003c\/i\u003e which won the Kingsley Tufts Prize, was published in 1995. Digges has written two memoirs, \u003ci\u003eFugitive Spring\u003c\/i\u003e (1991) and \u003ci\u003eThe Stardust Lounge\u003c\/i\u003e (2001). She has received grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. Digges lives in Massachusetts, where she is a professor of English at Tufts University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.28 x 7.94 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 13, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353959612665,"sku":"9780375710216","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Ocrv3ztiQ_9780375710216_a4de39ed-e0d9-41b1-80a9-c399420a1ed8.webp?v=1769828869","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/trapeze-paperback-3","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}