{"product_id":"groaning-and-singing-paperback","title":"Groaning and Singing - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDiane Kistner\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJudy Kronenfeld\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOur memory is the only help that is left to them.\u003c\/i\u003e Theodor Adorno's words, the epigraph of Judy Kronenfeld's poem, \"Saving the Dead,\" epitomize a central theme of her elegiac, yet life-affirming collection that would prevent memory from drifting \"into the dilating voids of space.\" \u003ci\u003eGroaning and Singing\u003c\/i\u003e invokes ancestors known and unknown and evokes the stories of parents and wider family in the particularity that demonstrates the truths and gifts of their lives. It evokes communities: the urban lonely, the women, \"blotched \/ and spotted, with our walkers \/ and canes,\" gathered in \"Shearly Beloved,\" even the sufferers of the \"incandescently unimaginable\" pain of history-violence, oppression, disease. But also present is the \u003ci\u003enow\u003c\/i\u003e of gratefulness: for \"morning, morning! \/ commonplace and miraculous,\" for sudden joy, \"like dripping fistfuls of sequin confetti \/ flung into the air and hanging for a moment \/ crackling like fireworks.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.18 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 07, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42706906153023,"sku":"9781952593222","price":25.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/6db78878e9e8ac25ab9f97bc965aacfa.webp?v=1765042095","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/groaning-and-singing-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}