{"product_id":"a-late-spring-and-after-paperback","title":"A Late Spring, and After - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert B. Shaw\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert B. Shaw explores the depths of experience, childhood, memory, and his midwestern roots: \"The days go slowly but the years go fast. \/ Old movies used to bridge the story's gaps \/ by morphing falling leaves to frantic snow ...\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe heart of his book is a series of meditations on his wife's illness, passing, and what remains after--the vivid memories of time well-spent: \"We used to work \/ together at it, each on a different side, \/ she stirring, measuring, tasting, I \/ chopping, dicing, mincing as required. \/ Rocking the blade the way she showed me to, \/ I freed from each raw thing a smell we liked: \/ the garlic's earthy reek, the ginger's sting, \/ the anise wisping up from celery leaves.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Robert B. Shaw anchors A Late Spring, and After with a group of beautiful elegies for his wife. These recall, in their deep feeling and stylistic distinction, Thomas Hardy's \"Poems of 1912-13.\" No less impressive are the other poems in this book. Time and again, Shaw brings his subjects to life with memorable description. Handles of tools look \"like lemon jelly petrified.\" A man smokes on a dark porch at night, \"making himself evident by inhaling, \/ rousing an ember-dot of hot vermilion.\" And the subjects themselves encompass an extraordinarily wide range of experience. Plants and animals, youth and age, private life and public history--everything is here in glorious enchantment and detail.\"--Timothy Steele\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert B. Shaw is the author of six books of poetry, the latest of which, \u003cem\u003eAromatics\u003c\/em\u003e, was co-winner of The Poets' Prize. For his prose work, \u003cem\u003eBlank Verse: A Guide to Its History and Use\u003c\/em\u003e, he received the Robert Fitzgerald Award. He recently retired from Mount Holyoke College, where he was the Emily Dickinson Professor of English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.25 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 12, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42712468619327,"sku":"9781936671380","price":27.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/9b109204cb70438eed35b1ed94fdd525.webp?v=1765061848","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/a-late-spring-and-after-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}