{"product_id":"gone-bird-in-the-glass-hours-a-poem-play-9781607817680","title":"gone bird in the glass hours: a poem play","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZachary Asher's second collection, \u003ci\u003egone bird in the glass hours\u003c\/i\u003e, is a play in verse, featuring seven voices. It begins with a rabbi, bewildered and bent by personal grief, guided and beguiled by elusive Blue Postman into the world of 'the glass hours' and its inhabitants.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rooted in magical realism, \u003ci\u003egone bird in the glass hours \u003c\/i\u003eexperiments with multiple forms from epistles to centos, from fractals to prayers. These poems are brave in their excavations of grief and solace, wonder and rage, collective trauma and, ultimately, transcendence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Zachary Asher's \u003ci\u003egone bird in the glass hours\u003c\/i\u003e it is the grievers who heal the grieving. Here, life is insistent, whether it is a frog in the pulse or a river that refuses to dry up or the days when weeping both rejoices and sorrows. In Asher's poems, poets and god divide and erase the languages of dark hymns, yet even through the sadness there's still a joy that can take us back to the time when everyone we loved was still alive. In these poems there's a way to be winged, a way to hope through the darkness.\" - Traci Brimhall, author of \u003ci\u003eCome the Slumberless to the Land of Nod \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOur Lady of the Ruins \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Like some wandering twenty-first-century Chagall working his magic with words instead of paint, Zachary Asher upends and refreshes the visible world with the balance and grace of an acrobat. Floating and grounded, reverent and irreverent, \u003ci\u003egone bird in the glass hours\u003c\/i\u003e is an elegy shot through with ode. Whether limning moments of epiphany or tragedy, ancient Judaic practice or daily ritual in our time of tech, the wonders in this poem play are informed by faith, sharpened by erotic love, and drenched in the color blue, in almost mystical celebration. A not-so-subterranean ode that dwells, above all, in the blue of radiant mystery.\" - Sarah Maclay, author of \u003ci\u003eMusic for the Black Room\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe White Bride\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Zachary Asher writes of 'the accidental \/ beauty of being alive' in this moving and hybrid Jewish work - a mystic probing, a searchingly literary investigation into the mystery of our transience.\" - Edward Hirsch, author of \u003ci\u003eGabriel\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Living Fire: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Utah Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53188832657751,"sku":"9781607817680","price":13.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gone-bird-in-the-glass-hours-a-poem-play-9781607817680","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}