{"product_id":"from-the-bones-out-paperback","title":"From the Bones Out - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarisa de Los Santos\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarisa de los Santos often situates her poems in the rich, vividly evoked landscapes of Virginia and Texas as well as her father's homeland, the Philippines, but their true territory is the body itself, particularly the female body. Throughout her work there is a sharp longing for a life of the senses, of \"pure corpus.\" In the words of the poem \"Women Watching Basketball,\" there is the Whitmanian desire \"to declare Divine is the flesh! and for once to believe it, believe it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDe los Santos is acutely conscious of all that interferes with the realization of this desire: the brutalities of illness, the transfigurations of age, our readiness to respond to the body as seen object rather than active sentient subject. Even the very passion for language that brings these poems to life is a risk, and in the poem \"Io's Gift,\" the mythical nymph Io laments, \"A woman made of words is milkweed, bound to rattle open, scatter, and be lost.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFrom the Bones Out, \u003c\/i\u003e loss, doubt, and conflict engender poems of lucidity and compassion--amounting to empathic verbal gestures--that build connections between women, as well as between women and men, and that seek to illuminate the simple elusive fact that the world is full of lives, each real, each different from the other. The compassion the poems express in sometimes strictly formal, always shapely, lines and stanzas is what gives this collection its grace and moral urgency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarisa de los Santos\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in northern Virginia, received a B.A. from the University of Virginia, an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, and a Ph.D. in English literature and creative writing from the University of Houston. Her poems have appeared in such publications as \u003ci\u003ePoetry, Chelsea, Western Humanities Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner.\u003c\/i\u003e She teaches at the University of Delaware and lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 79\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.33 x 8.48 x 5.29 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42714722828351,"sku":"9781570033230","price":36.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/0eb0b40bd809561685369a4e28cc1ede.webp?v=1765069119","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/from-the-bones-out-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}