{"product_id":"soluble-fish-9780809327737","title":"Soluble Fish","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTakes readers to a place of discovery, exploring issues of borders, familial and love relationships, and other aspects of being human.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSoluble Fish is a no-holds-barred romp of language and imagination, a cornucopian celebration of great swathes of the known world, from dung beetles to the 'black stretch-leotard' of cosmic space. Mary Jo Firth Gillett's powerful music does not avoid the chaos and cacophonies of our lives but embraces and transforms them, devours them for nourishment and offers us a splendid richness that challenges, informs, and delights to the point of astonishment. - Philip Dacey, author of The Mystery of Max Schmitt: Poems on the Life and Work of Thomas Eakins \"\"Gratitude is what these poems quicken in us, for the witness of this life's abundant gifts: sea monkeys, lily pond, hibiscus - certainly - and the luxuriant ways of fathers, daughters, rivers, song. Gillett transforms the common table, the common talk, into something nearer the holy, holy, holy.\"\" - Thomas Lynch, author of Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans \"\"Mary Jo Firth Gillett is an audacious writer who swerves between outrageous wit and linguistic abandon. Her insatiable imagination absorbs Pavlov, insect love, potatoes, Newtonian physics and a paper-thin-hibiscus, and this symphony of odd relations existing within and between her poems serves to enlarge our vision, our capacity for sympathy, while producing a rather pleasant form of vertigo. Gillett's juxtapositions delight the senses and intellect simultaneously, making a beeline for the heart of the matter through their vivid attentiveness to the materiality of everyday and not-so-everyday experience.\"\" - Phillis Levin, author of Mercury","brand":"MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038232936791,"sku":"9780809327737","price":13.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780809327737.jpg?v=1750939588","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/soluble-fish-9780809327737","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}