{"product_id":"expectation-days-9780252074752","title":"Expectation Days","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eReflections on everyday living and bereavement \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"This book is a knockout. Sandra McPherson is fully aware of art's limited power to console, and the stunning poems of her new collection admit not a whiff of affection or artificial catharsis.\"--\u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In the completeness of her description—tender, shocking, hilarious—McPherson’s \u003ci\u003eExpectation Days\u003c\/i\u003e leaves the stuffy woolens of inhibition locked behind closed doors, preferring to dance outdoors in a gauzy linen dress, letting the sun trace her silhouette, in all its beauty and misery.”--\u003ci\u003eSacramento News \u0026amp; Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"McPherson . . . stands in a sort of magic circle and conjures up a world I am glad to be part of. . . . A poet among us who deserves more readers, more homage, more celebration.\"--\u003ci\u003eField\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Read Sandra McPherson's poems to experience the beautiful intellect of words placed in perfect positions of sound and sight. Read \u003ci\u003eExpectation Days\u003c\/i\u003e to encounter multiple ways to measure memory, subtle stratagems to release loss, the coaxing of magical phrases to retain the present, the play of wit and light to keep a balance. Read Sandra McPherson's delving and surfacing poetry carefully. Immersion. Don't miss a single word.\"--Pattiann Rogers, author of \u003ci\u003eFirekeeper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sandra McPherson's edgy elegies, lyrically nuanced observations, and meticulously stitched narratives inhabit a landscape of yearning, hope, and skepticism. Balanced between grief and affirmation, the beautifully crafted, fearlessly honest poems of \u003ci\u003eExpectation Days\u003c\/i\u003e shimmer with delight in the things of this world even while they brood on the losses to which all things must succumb.\"--Sandra M. Gilbert, author of \u003ci\u003eBelongings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sandra McPherson is one of the first poets in my generation to declare her individuality. She transposed the core--the freshness of seeing--into a sensibility that was younger, more raffish, more political. Maturity has only honed her fine diction and her emotional accuracy. \u003ci\u003eExpectation Days\u003c\/i\u003e finds her at the top of her form.\"--Alan Williamson, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Pattern More Complicated\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"MO - University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036840427863,"sku":"9780252074752","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252074752.jpg?v=1750932722","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/expectation-days-9780252074752","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}