{"product_id":"the-snows-wife-9781933880815","title":"The Snow`s Wife","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Snow’s Wife\u003c\/i\u003e presents a dispassionate examination of the final months of a marriage, ending with a spouse's death. It examines the daily minutiae of caregiving, both the tender and the distasteful, that lend startling poignancy to unbearable hardship. Frannie Lindsay’s poems chronicle how these challenges shock both self and God, dismantling that spiritual partnership and creating a new one that seems at first a temporary refuge, but is later revealed to be sturdy and permanent. This collection explores the ways in which intimacy becomes at once tender and gritty in the face of loss. These poems investigate how we remember, and how we begin the patient reshaping of the bereft self.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Snow’s Wife\u003c\/i\u003e reaches beyond the sorrow of the poems’ speaker and includes the reader in the difficult, loving acceptance of mortality. Unafraid to look beyond the sentimentality of grief, Lindsay draws an unflinching and intimate portrait of a conflicted yet tender relationship. Illustrating the strain that an expected death can place upon a marriage, and the myriad and surprising ways in which such strain expands the heart, \u003ci\u003eThe Snow’s Wife\u003c\/i\u003e examines the crises of faith that arise naturally during intimate end-of-life caregiving.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrand Prize Honorable Mention * Eric Hoffer Awards *\u003cbr\u003e“Frannie Lindsay’s poems recall Tsvetayeva’s epistolary prose in which corporeality is freed from its external boundaries, embracing, instead, the transcendent where, as Tsvetayeva wrote, ‘a dream hand take\/Another hand’s dream.’ The sleeper, Lindsay’s late husband, is guided back home: ‘do not be afraid\/here is a harpsichord\/here is a greyhound\/here the first phrase of a cello sonata\/and the slowed wind of your wife’s silver hair.’ The book extends beyond elegies to other hard-hitting evocations. In a prayer for her rapist, Lindsay offers ‘I hope he has learned\/to slink unnoticed across the nights’ sad meadows, leaving the aster\/alone in their clusters.’ God, Lindsay beckons, is both ‘beloved and exiled’ …‘we can\/no longer awaken\/even one star. \u003ci\u003eThe Snow’s Wife\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable book of unbroken, emphasized silences, of enduring heart and intuition: ‘The snow, if it was kind, would fall again like old magnolia petals\/loosening all at once because it’s time.’” -- Dzvinia Orlowsky, author of Bad Harvest\u003cbr\u003e“Why, when Frannie Lindsay calls me to walk with her on the way of the cross, do I find myself saying yes, yes, thank you? Is it because her beautiful, pungent, sensual laments confirm that I'm not crazy, that the world is in fact as sad and full of grace as I thought? Is it because Lindsay has already written several fiercely lovely books of poems that are essential to me, such that now I will follow her voice absolutely anywhere? Yes, and yes, and thank you.”  -- Patrick Donnelly, author of Little-Known Operas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFalcon\u003cbr\u003ePart One - God with us \u003cbr\u003eBead\u003cbr\u003eInvitation\u003cbr\u003eDying Boy\u003cbr\u003eElegy in October \u003cbr\u003eRefuge\u003cbr\u003eBedtime Story\u003cbr\u003ePrayer without a Voice\u003cbr\u003eIn November, Everything Departs\u003cbr\u003eto alienation\u003cbr\u003ePrayer for My Rapist\u003cbr\u003eCry\u003cbr\u003emorning\u003cbr\u003eIn the burning childhood house \u003cbr\u003eImpressionism\u003cbr\u003eGeoff\u003cbr\u003eComfort\u003cbr\u003eLouise\u003cbr\u003ePart Two - August\u003cbr\u003eBrushing the Horse\u003cbr\u003eSaturday\u003cbr\u003eGrapes for the Action Figures\u003cbr\u003eSaving the Yew Tree\u003cbr\u003eNovember on Fresh Pond\u003cbr\u003eAngel\u003cbr\u003eFarewell Blessing\u003cbr\u003eTo a Mourning Dove Rescued from the Curb\u003cbr\u003eGoldfinch\u003cbr\u003esmall remembrance\u003cbr\u003eOx\u003cbr\u003eThe End of the Walk to Bethlehem\u003cbr\u003eThe Arrival at the Manger of Those Who Mourn\u003cbr\u003eThe Good World\u003cbr\u003ePart Three - Vesper\u003cbr\u003eIn the Before\u003cbr\u003eThe Listening Room \u003cbr\u003eGolgotha \u003cbr\u003eBenediction\u003cbr\u003eUnction\u003cbr\u003eAfterself \u003cbr\u003eReceiving the Host\u003cbr\u003eElegy Against Itself\u003cbr\u003eClairvoyance\u003cbr\u003eThe Cremation\u003cbr\u003eSnowdrops\u003cbr\u003eA Welcome\u003cbr\u003eClear Summer Night \u003cbr\u003eMobile\u003cbr\u003eThe Rabbits of Upland Road\u003cbr\u003eHarpsichord\u003cbr\u003eAfter\u003cbr\u003eListening Elegy\u003cbr\u003eAndante\u003cbr\u003eAfterword\u003cbr\u003eLullaby One Year Later","brand":"CavanKerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49414800867671,"sku":"9781933880815","price":14.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781933880815.jpg?v=1730524931","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-snows-wife-9781933880815","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}