{"product_id":"crocus-paperback-softback-9780823227310","title":"Crocus (Paperback \/ softback) 9780823227310","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCrocus\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKarin Gottshall (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823227310\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 April 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e78 pages\u003cbr\u003e21 x 14 x 0.6 cm, 0.122 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eCrocus is not leadenly preoccupied with things; rather, its desire is to open again and again to the world. (—Mid-American Review) British writer Virginia Woolf wrote about the pleasures of having a room of one's own. Here, Vermont poet Karin Gottshall shows us her own sort of private place. (—Tracy Press)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether\u003cbr\u003e Aligned with the mechanism\u003cbr\u003e whereby the spirit is borne aloft\u003cbr\u003e through song comes again\u003cbr\u003e the question: whether. And not soothed\u003cbr\u003e so much as opened by the boy\u003cbr\u003e soprano's Sanctus, what moves\u003cbr\u003e in the mind as the throat constricts\u003cbr\u003e in sympathy, one note peeled\u003cbr\u003e from the last, fine as paper slipped\u003cbr\u003e from a garlic bulb, veined,\u003cbr\u003e translucent, is whether—as if\u003cbr\u003e wound through the spiraling\u003cbr\u003e amplitude, purpled, fretted,\u003cbr\u003e one voice suspended\u003cbr\u003e in concentration of prayer or terror\u003cbr\u003e wills itself above faltering,\u003cbr\u003e more perfect since time must\u003cbr\u003e soon break it. And made it.\u003cbr\u003e Whether and by whatever impossible\u003cbr\u003e arrangement of stars, harmonies,\u003cbr\u003e correspondences through which\u003cbr\u003e the music finds the spirit and like\u003cbr\u003e a blade slits and releases,\u003cbr\u003e circulates the question\u003cbr\u003e through the phrase, the delicate\u003cbr\u003e engine—as if it matters: the song\u003cbr\u003e rises, everything goes with it.\u003cbr\u003e The poems in Crocus take as their starting points the interior universes created by myth, art, and\u003cbr\u003e memory, and through the exploration of these terrains create new ways of understanding the ordinary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580237017368,"sku":"9780823227310","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/crocus-paperback-softback-9780823227310","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}