{"product_id":"moving-the-piano-9781936205400","title":"Moving the Piano","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the title poem of Shearin's \u003ci\u003eMoving The Piano, \u003c\/i\u003ea piano hangs above a city street, bundled and displaced, awkward when it should be elegant, similar to her childhood of damaged Christmas trees, misunderstood pets, and untended lawns. The piano is temporarily displaced, seen differently because it is lifted away from its ordinary surroundings: suspended above the burdens of the earth. The poems in this collection also seek to hold objects and emotions aloft, to allow them to dangle above the usual landscape, allowing the reader a new vantage point. The book contains many poems that explore the particulars of life on the island of Kitty Hawk whereshe was a child; they pay attention to untended lawns, sunburns, turtles, motherhood, dead pets, and wilted Christmas trees. One very brief poem explains how to live without money. The collection pays notice to foxes and jellyfish, to the places where she can hear the ocean; it ponders aging and money and motherhood. Shearin says of the piano: \"We cannot\/ turn away from its startling\/ moment of freedom, its perilous fling\/ before it returns to the burdens of this earth.\" Her poems capture that perilous fling. Her first collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Owl Question, \u003c\/i\u003ewon the May Swenson Award and the poems inher second, \u003ci\u003eThe Empty House,\u003c\/i\u003e helped he rwin a grant from The National Endowment for the Arts.Her work has appeared regularly in \u003ci\u003ePloughshares, The Sun, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNorth American Review \u003c\/i\u003eand has been read aloud by Garrison Keillor on his show \u003ci\u003eThe Writer's Almanac. \u003c\/i\u003eRecent work also appears in the \u003ci\u003eAutumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poets\u003c\/i\u003e. The poems in \u003ci\u003eMoving the Piano\u003c\/i\u003e were written over a period of three years, on the island of Kitty Hawk, with the help of grants from the NEA and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. They contain the images and emotions and ideas thatshe finds most compelling and moving;","brand":"Stephen F. Austin State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50470336037207,"sku":"9781936205400","price":15.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781936205400.jpg?v=1744898051","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/moving-the-piano-9781936205400","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}