{"product_id":"shirt-in-heaven-9781556594786","title":"Shirt in Heaven","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Jean Valentine has a gift for tough strangeness, but also a dreamlike syntax and manner of arranging the lines of . . . short poems so as to draw us into the doubleness and fluency of feelings.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQuietly marked by elegy and memory, National Book Award winner Jean Valentine''s thirteenth book is empowered by her signature clear music and compassion. Valentine leads us chronologically from childhood drawings and wartime memories to the present, where she addresses aging and the loss of loved ones. These poems of tender grace reflect on the small histories few ever fully see.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShirt in Heaven\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCome upon a snapshot\u003cbr\u003eof secret you, smiling like FDR, leaning on your crutches—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ecome upon letters I thought I''d burned—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI suppose you''ve got a place with lots of stairs.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI''m at the end of something, you''re at the beginning . . . \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e—dearest, they told me a surgeon sat down\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ein the hospital morgue, next to your body, \u0026amp; cried.\u003cbr\u003eHe yelled at the aide to get out.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHis two sons had been your students.\u003cbr\u003e—me too, little-knowing—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean Valentine\u003c\/b\u003e is the current State Poet of New York and author of twelve books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eDoor in the Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Award. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, and Columbia University, and lives in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359612666199,"sku":"9781556594786","price":18.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781556594786.jpg?v=1754125175","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shirt-in-heaven-9781556594786","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}