{"product_id":"daywork-poems-paperback","title":"Daywork: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJessica Fisher\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA meditation on art's longevity and the brevity of human life from the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eFrail-Craft\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Inmost\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJessica Fisher brings \"the faraway close,\" through ruthless yet tender interrogations of possibility and permanence. Set against the backdrop of the fallen empire of Rome, \u003ci\u003eDaywork\u003c\/i\u003e takes its title from the giornata-the name in fresco painting for the section of wet plaster that can be painted in a single day, where each \"day\" is marked by the hidden seams in a finished painting.In a voice that is as poised as it is unmistakably urgent, Fisher aims to uncover what adheres against the fabric of history, and what becomes effaced over time. Her search leads her to discover signs of ruin of a different kind, and her poems begin to coalesce around a single perilous realization: that time is not merely an agent of erasure. Time is also a tether, rendering violence, beauty, grief, and art separate merely by a matter of days. \"So you see once again,\" she writes, \"violence is to beauty \/ as the warp to the weft \/ always somewhere beneath.\"Like the fresco itself, \u003ci\u003eDaywork \u003c\/i\u003eis committed to a time- and site-specific art, and to the daily work of creation. At once an elegiac meditation and a brave unearthing, this book expertly discerns the monumentalizing portrayals of history and its violences, while boldly illuminating other crucial accounts of everyday existence.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJessica Fisher\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eDaywork. \u003c\/i\u003eShe is also the author of \u003ci\u003eFrail-Craft\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2006 Yale Younger Poets Prize, and \u003ci\u003eInmost\u003c\/i\u003e, which was awarded the 2011 Nightboat Poetry Prize. Her honors include the 2012 Rome Prize, a Holloway Postdoctoral Fellowship in Poetry, and a research grant from the Hellman Foundation. She holds a PhD from University of California at Berkeley and is currently an associate professor of English at Williams College. She lives with her family in Western Massachusetts.\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 0.4 x 8.3 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 19, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42690871623743,"sku":"9781639550722","price":19.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/cd1cfc566c7e5d42bb658959d84a980c.webp?v=1764990383","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/daywork-poems-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}