{"product_id":"black-drum-poems-9781557284976","title":"Black Drum: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBlack Drum\u003c\/i\u003e, Enid Shomer fuses mind with body, knowledge with physical being, and affirms the capacity of language to accomplish this fusion. With clearly fashioned images, her focus often narrows on close particulars or leaps to wide angles, as in these lines from the title poem in which the narrator is battling a fish:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe had been struggling for ten\u003cbr\u003e minutes—a lifetime—over whose world\u003cbr\u003e would prevail: his, with its purled\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e edges and continuous center, or mine\u003cbr\u003e with its yin and yang,\u003cbr\u003e its surface incised into sky\u003cbr\u003e and sea, the land like a scar\u003cbr\u003e between.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe characters in Shomer’s poems discover the ceaseless motion of living in the body and the inevitability of decay. In “Notes from the Sketch book of Gustav Klimt,” Shomer boldly says, “I have always balked \/ at the purely decorative, \/ but then I saw that the symbolic \/ could stir us by its absence.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Drum\u003c\/i\u003e insists that life on earth speaks of transformation and transience; epiphany can happen any where, with “schemes illegal and grand” with slot machines, race horses, dead or estranged relatives, and lost love. Enid Shomer signals us to make the most of life, despite our limitations and in the face of bewildering catastrophe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Arkansas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041324433751,"sku":"9781557284976","price":17.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/black-drum-poems-9781557284976","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}