{"product_id":"uncertain-grace-9781556591549","title":"Uncertain Grace","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2000 Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRebecca Wee''s award-winning debut is a moody and lyrical mosaic where the reader is presented multiple and simultaneous points of reality. As line after line gathers details from the world, Wee''s poems build in momentum, give voice to the silenced, and explore the poet''s impulse to create art that transcends suffering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebecca Wee\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of creative writing at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. A former editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Minnesota Review\u003c\/i\u003e, she earned her MFA from George Mason University and has received several awards for her poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePont des Arts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe''s bent in a posture of anguish or prayer\u003cbr\u003e in a spot of city filth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHead down, a stained knit cap\u003cbr\u003e with a few coins on the ground beside her,\u003cbr\u003e and her pliant child, a shadow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomeone veers past with a friend\u003cbr\u003e in a clamor of rings and scarves. A pretty child\u003cbr\u003e skips after them, scattering pigeons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mothers miss how their daughters'' eyes catch them--\u003cbr\u003e the wary, openmouthed stares.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA terrible knowledge passes between them,\u003cbr\u003e the bridge rippling under their feet,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ebefore the polished child rushes past but looks back\u003cbr\u003e at the one on the bridge in the heat--\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ethe sunblown silent one\u003cbr\u003e whose hand has pulled back and flown up to smooth,\u003cbr\u003e for a moment, her heavy hair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Philosopher\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA man rides a bicycle into town. He''s forgotten his clothes,\u003cbr\u003e or maybe this is what he means to do.\u003cbr\u003e He rides carefully into the burning town.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApartments of old stone list, iron balconies, awnings,\u003cbr\u003e the window-grates blacken with heat. He rides by.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis lip perspires, his eyes intent.\u003cbr\u003e In the hills behind him there is a glow that is not the burning.\u003cbr\u003e The Acropolis maybe. The Dome of the Rock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe man has a book under his arm. The pages are gilt-edged, the title\u003cbr\u003e has worn away. He has a shoulder-wound also, an old crescent scar.\u003cbr\u003e Now his chest sweats, now his abdomen.\u003cbr\u003e He is more agile than laughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe road turns. A black sedan rounds the corner\u003cbr\u003e behind him. They are leaving town or they''re trailing him.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359608832343,"sku":"9781556591549","price":15.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781556591549.jpg?v=1754125166","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/uncertain-grace-9781556591549","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}