{"product_id":"late-self-portraits-9781611864229","title":"Late Self-Portraits","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA compelling collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eLate Self-Portraits\u003c\/i\u003e conveys an intimate description of lives through a collage of portraits and affliction. Weaving history and the sacred, both intimate and worldly, one encounters a blind Jorge Luis Borges with his mother, a glass confessional in the of Notre Dame Cathedral, Frida Kahlo in Mexico, ghosts, a neurosurgeon’s prognosis, and Marie Laveau in New Orleans. Whether in a field with Joan of Arc, encountering the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, or having dinner with Hades, these are haunting poems of loss and unearthing, equally bold, personal, and tender.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From “\u003ci\u003eDinner with Hades\u003c\/i\u003e”:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e He shows me a birthday cake, candled. My name is written in pomegranate seeds. It’s like vertigo. Just before he seeks to devour, he halts to birdsong—sound of goldfinch, bluebird, hawk, lilting of sparrows. Of whippoorwill and dove. Wings flap, so many wings, a cool breeze as leaves unfurl into a once forgotten green and I am back on earth, held in my mother’s arms.","brand":"Michigan State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51863524311383,"sku":"9781611864229","price":18.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781611864229.jpg?v=1759920788","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/late-self-portraits-9781611864229","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}