{"product_id":"divine-honors-9781496228154","title":"Divine Honors","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis elegant and moving collection of poems documents Hilda Raz's experience with breast cancer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Transgressive and transcendent, Hilda Raz’s . . . poems are intimately involved with the physical, corporeal world, and constantly making the leap of faith necessary to its reembodiment in words. These poems push the boundaries of what language can do to enunciate perception. Their beauty, their clarity, their mystery equally compel.”—Marilyn Hacker\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eDivine Honors\u003c\/i\u003e we’re in for a head-on collision with grief, the inescapable fact of cancer. Raz conveys joy and hope and love of others and of the natural world turned into poetry, after that horrible discovery and ordeal. The best of the poems are breathtaking—the sensuous imagery, the sounds she repeats for the pleasure of reading, and the surprising juxtaposition of images. I love this book of poems—grief and longing turned into poetry.”—Walter McDonald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDivine Honors\u003c\/i\u003e is a rare book, one that does honor to its subject and transcends it at the same time. An unflinching account of the cost and the effects of breast cancer, \u003ci\u003eDivine Honors \u003c\/i\u003eilluminates much more about a women’s life that has, mysteriously, remained shadowy in so many other accounts of women’s lives. Few books change your way of viewing the world. This one does.”—Susan Fromberg Schaffer\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Repair\u003cbr\u003e Narrative Without People\u003cbr\u003e Let's consider the consequences\u003cbr\u003e Isaac Stern's Performance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I Hear the Name of the Moon and Am Afraid\u003cbr\u003e Weathering\/boundaries\/what is good\u003cbr\u003e To Explain\u003cbr\u003e Mu\u003cbr\u003e Coming Down with Something\u003cbr\u003e Fish--Belly--Mound\u003cbr\u003e \"Two Are Better Than One\"\u003cbr\u003e Getting Well\u003cbr\u003e For Barbara, Who Brings a Green Stone in the Shape of a Triangle\u003cbr\u003e Day-Old Bargain\u003cbr\u003e Breast\/fever\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e II\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sarah's Response\u003cbr\u003e Sarah Among Animals\u003cbr\u003e Sarah's Head\u003cbr\u003e Sarah Fledging\u003cbr\u003e Sarah's Waltz\u003cbr\u003e Balance\u003cbr\u003e Order\u003cbr\u003e Axe-earrings, abalone shell\u003cbr\u003e Birth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e III\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Opening\/Working\/Walking\u003cbr\u003e Hey You\u003cbr\u003e Grieving, she hits the red fox\u003cbr\u003e Mapping\/Bleating\u003cbr\u003e Trope\u003cbr\u003e Sow Sister\u003cbr\u003e Bernini's Ribbon\u003cbr\u003e Petting the Scar\u003cbr\u003e Teaching, Hurt\u003cbr\u003e Riddle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e IV\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chigger Socks\u003cbr\u003e Daylight Savings: Sandy Creek, Nebraska\u003cbr\u003e Cobb's Hill Pond\u003cbr\u003e Fuss\u003cbr\u003e Zen: the one I love most holds my tongue\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCamarada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From Your Mouth to God's Ear\u003cbr\u003e \"We don't deserve what we get\"\u003cbr\u003e G: But it's still not all right with you?\u003cbr\u003e Mutation Blues\u003cbr\u003e Insomnia Again\u003cbr\u003e Service\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e V\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hot\u003cbr\u003e Dying\u003cbr\u003e Terror: A Riddle\u003cbr\u003e Nuts\u003cbr\u003e Lincoln, Nebraska\u003cbr\u003e Letter of Transmittal\u003cbr\u003e Now\u003cbr\u003e Who Does She Think She Is\u003cbr\u003e Earlier\u003cbr\u003e Vowels\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Gloxinia\/Flicker\/Oxalis\u003cbr\u003e Recovery\u003cbr\u003e My Award\/The Jew of Lukow\u003cbr\u003e Ecstasies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409236992343,"sku":"9781496228154","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496228154.jpg?v=1730506086","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/divine-honors-9781496228154","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}