{ "item_title" : "I Was a First Alto in the 1980s", "item_author" : [" Deborah Garrison "], "item_description" : "An astonishingly insightful and deeply felt collection of poems that meditate on time and the many stages of a woman's life--from girlhood to adolescence, from being a young wife and mother, to seeing your children grow up and depart--by the celebrated poet and bestselling author of A Working Girl Can't WinThe strength of Garrison's poems is their ordinariness, in both language and subject matter. They are not pretentious. They speak to the reader directly: this is a conversation with a likable next-door neighbor.--The New York Times Deborah Garrison broke open the doors of poetry with A Working Girl Can't Win, a collection The New York Times called a highbrow analogue to Sex and the City, and then spoke profoundly to a changed post-9-11 world as she wrote of raising a family in The Second Child. Now she returns with an extraordinary new collection, inviting readers into her poems again in her conversational style like a wise, welcoming friend. But beneath this seeming simplicity is a recognition that is far from simple, for each poem in these pages investigates the most elusive element of our lives--the slippery power of time, and how it shapes our perception of who we are. The poet is a girl, innocently reaching for the adult novels on her parents' bookcase; in a blink, she's a college singer; then she's a young wife in the city, late for work. She's a mother at the kitchen sink, overhearing her daughter studying with her boyfriend; she's in the hospital holding her own mother's hand in her final days. Past eras collide in poetry's eternal present, as Garrison candidly illuminates a woman's most private moments, giving them language and meaning while revealing the startling beauty of life itself. Taken together, the poems of I Was a First Alto in the 1980s show why Garrison is a treasured American poet, one of exceptional intelligence and literary gifts.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/40/006/360/1400063604_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "24.00", "online_price" : "24.00", "our_price" : "24.00", "club_price" : "24.00", "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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