{"product_id":"midwhistle-9780299341541","title":"Midwhistle","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppearing on the first page of Dante Di Stefano’s \u003cem\u003eMidwhistle\u003c\/em\u003e, a flock of blackbirds braids its way throughout this book-length poem. A sprawling, digressive love note to an unborn son, it is also a celebration of the life and legacy of poet William Heyen, a meditation on midlife, and an exploration of the fuel of poetry itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMidwhistle \u003c\/i\u003eproves Dante Di Stefano ‘a child \/ of cello, air, \u0026amp; mint spears.’  In this refulgent homage, Di Stefano honors ‘what loves \/ have been thrummed forth \u0026amp; nurtured \/ into shining’ by poet William Heyen’s august work and person. Surely any reader will leave this book, as I did, more alert and alive, more ‘in love \/ with the gray undersides of \/ mulberry leaves \u0026amp; the way \/ the grass ekes toward twilight.\" - H. L. Hix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An epic masterpiece. A rare and seamless melding of literary forbearers in conversation with Di Stefano’s contemporary experience of being fully alive as a poet and human being trying to make sense of the world, yet once again. This book is akin to the essence of psalms: they sing to the glory of why poetry matters to us, one and all, across time.\" - Richard Blanco, 2013 presidential inaugural poet and author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Love a Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1 i. (out of the azure)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2ii. (an \u003ci\u003eUnyet \u003c\/i\u003ejust begun)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6iii. (interlude: elegy for Adam Zagajewski)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7iv. (this mattering of music)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10v. (soundtrack for a zombie apocalypse)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e13vi. (interlude: to my wife)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e14vii. (from aster)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e16viii. (poetry, be my body of shining)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e20ix. (a forty-three second freefall)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e23x. (mellifluous blah-blah \/\/ time travel)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e25xi. (interlude: on rereading Anne Carson’s Sappho)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e26xii. (when asked to describe the self \/\/ \u003ci\u003eYojimbo \u003c\/i\u003e\/\/ Ishmael)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e29xiii. (skilled with moons)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e30xiv. (playlist on repeat)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e32xv. (little arks)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e33xvi. (after Anthony Brunelli’s \u003ci\u003eDepot at Dusk\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e37xvii. (interlude: Darwin’s Arch)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e38xviii. (bright signatory)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e40xix. (the pomegranate’s hundred hundred hearts)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e41xx. (interlude: elegy for Eavan Boland)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e42xxi. (zero at the bone)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e44xxii. (in the manner of Proust \u0026amp; Tolstoy)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e45xxiii. (interlude: prayer for Gaza)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e46 xiv. (gleaming \/\/ a kind of rising)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e57envoi (a traveler’s prayer)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036937683287,"sku":"9780299341541","price":13.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780299341541.jpg?v=1750933102","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/midwhistle-9780299341541","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}