{"product_id":"talking-pillow-9780822965152","title":"Talking Pillow","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTalking Pillow celebrates love as amazement, sustenance, and the progenitor of scarce-believable loss. Imagining themselves into multiple times, places, and lives, the poems comically explore the possibilities of attachment between people and the absurdity of death’s sudden intrusion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTalking Pillow\u003c\/i\u003e is as intimate as a dream. In mourning her losses, the poet turns them into a new morning of the imagination peopled by a beloved companion and a cast including agents from the TSA and the FBI, Lon Chaney, Robert Frost, a young benefactor, and the glorious ghost of Anna Akhmatova.\"\" - David Lehman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Some poetry gives us a place to put away carefully what comes of living. All through \u003ci\u003eTalking Pillow \u003c\/i\u003ewe get to know Angela Ball’s stories of life, love, death, passion, grief, stamina and perseverance; we get to know her passion for words, ‘faint patronymics of gaud’\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eand we get to understand what mysterious life can do. When she says something is like ‘swimming for the first time\/underwater’\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003ewe feel how true that is, how good it can be to be understood.\"\" - Dara Wier","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52151182426455,"sku":"9780822965152","price":17.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822965152.jpg?v=1762960379","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/talking-pillow-9780822965152","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}