{ "item_title" : "False Spring", "item_author" : [" Gloria Monaghan "], "item_description" : "Following in the footprints of Amy Clampitt and Robert Creeley - two of our greatest contemporary naturalist poets - Gloria Monaghan offers this exquisite collection. But, like all other prints left on a nature trail, her footprints are distinctly her own - whether tender, rhapsodic, wistful or sardonic. This trail begins in a cemetery where flowers are left to flourish in the water of tears. It then moves naturally to memories of the poet's father, siblings, a former love, and her children. In all of these poems - and in the others offered here - the words stun in their Dickinsonian simplicity and beauty. The smell of my daughter's hair breaks my heart.Even when she is describing a grim crime scene (The police search the reeds and the water ... in the hope of finding a body), she returns and finds/offers solace in the natural world (Did your body smell like an ocean?).As befits good poetry, each poem here jars, prods, provokes, disturbs - even in a love poem - often with a sly sense of humor (Your smell escapes me) or bitter regret (The daylight / never ceases to astonish / ... as if that's all we need).The richly textured images leave the reader glad to have taken the trek. It is a journey to which the lucky reader will return time and again, each time discovering new growth. - Neil Silberblatt, Founder/Director, Voices of Poetry; Author, Past Imperfect (Nixes Mate Books, 2018), nominated for Mass. Book Award in Poetry", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/95/043/707/1950437078_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "19.60", "online_price" : "19.60", "our_price" : "19.60", "club_price" : "19.60", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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