{"product_id":"unholy-heart-new-and-selected-poems-paperback-softback-9781496225948","title":"Unholy Heart; New and Selected Poems (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496225948","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eUnholy Heart\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNew and Selected Poems\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGrace Bauer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496225948\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 March 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e192 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.298 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“Grace Bauer is a first-rate narrative metaphysician, telling stories as ideas and ideas as stories. . . . A keen inventiveness lights up every poem in this new and selected collection, in which the beautifully, uniquely observed detail exists not for its own sake but as one more clue leading us toward unsettling discoveries.”-Dorothy Barresi, author of \u003ci\u003eWhat We Did While We Made More Guns \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eUnholy Heart\u003c\/i\u003e offers us a record of a poet, steadily, and with craft, deep reflection, wit, sensuality, and honesty-building a case for the dismantling of patriarchy through the challenge of persistent myths that undergird American culture, from the Bible to popular culture to art history to various mythologies of ancient and present mintage. With masterful use of ekphrastic poetry, persona poems, narrative poems, formal poems, and free verse, Grace Bauer’s body of work, presented beautifully and generously in this volume, is a welcome and important addition to the poetry of the Midwest, and to the poetry of America.”-Kwame Dawes, author of \u003ci\u003eNebraska: Poems \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eUnholy Heart\u003c\/i\u003e we witness the unfolding of a life, a voice, and a spirit, often as the speaker inhabits other voices, from the biblical Marys to Marilyn Monroe, via iconic visual artists and their art, and via a range of landscapes, of homes seen anew. ‘What I once called home \/ today seems strange,’ Bauer writes as the biblical Ruth, and it is that perception and re-perception, and an intensifying openness to mystery and interior journeying, that characterizes this collection.”-Diane Seuss, author of \u003ci\u003eStill Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eNebraska Book Award, Poetry Honor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnholy Heart\u003c\/i\u003e includes generous selections from each of Grace Bauer’s previous books of poetry, plus a sampling of new poems. Bauer has long been known for the wide range of both her subject matter and poetic styles, from the biblical persona poems of \u003ci\u003eThe Women at the Well\u003c\/i\u003e, to the explorations of visual art in \u003ci\u003eBeholding Eye\u003c\/i\u003e, to the intersections of personal history and pop culture in \u003ci\u003eRetreats and Recognitions\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNowhere All At Once\u003c\/i\u003e, and to the postmodern fragmentations in \u003ci\u003eMEAN\/TIME\u003c\/i\u003e. Along with these selections, Bauer incorporates her most elegiac work yet.\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":"The Backwaters Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599913644312,"sku":"9781496225948","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/unholy-heart-new-and-selected-poems-paperback-softback-9781496225948","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}