{"product_id":"iron-into-flower-paperback","title":"Iron into Flower - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYvette Neisser\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"You must change your life, \/ say the rabbis of old\" begins a poem from \u003cem\u003eIron into Flower, \u003c\/em\u003e Yvette Neisser's second collection. Like those rabbis, Neisser's deceptively simple poems pose age-old questions about memory, identity, love, faith, and morality. And when calamity strikes-a death, an auto accident, a divorce-the poems' speaker, also named \"Yvette Neisser,\" does indeed change her life, reclaiming her body, her identity, even her name. Timeless rituals-the sun's arc, the passing of the seasons, the quiet pleasures of making tea and flipping tortillas-help reassure even the most troubled souls who haunt these poems. Neisser writes, \"Bless us all, the whole imperfect lot of us.\" And she means it: these are poems of healing and grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Katherine E. Young\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eWoman Drinking Absinthe, \u003c\/em\u003e Poet Laureate Emerita, Arlington, VA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eIron into Flower \u003c\/em\u003edoesn't pull any punches as we readers are drawn into a landscape of loss: Auschwitz, Gaza, the body, first loves, and even depression's loss of color, as 'orange and red cascade\/ and crumble into brown, \/ then earth, \/ then bareness.' In these moving and rhythmic texts where Neisser's children's faces are 'all that matter, ' the poet finds beauty and strength in her yearning to 'learn the shape of faith.'\u003cstrong\u003e-Nancy Naomi Carlson\u003c\/strong\u003e, Author of \u003cem\u003eAn Infusion of Violets\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI relished this dual-journey of a book, where mother traverses the Deep South in the mid-sixties on her way to Mexico. But also landscapes of memory-a hike with father, where \"the years have etched rings around my life\"-in poem after poem the arresting passage of time; or a kind of lifespan within a single poem, from \"the pull of oars up the quiet river...to \"the closing of eyelids.\" But we also encounter work that doesn't flinch in the face of harrowing histories-pieces that \"shine a mirror inside [our]selves \/ examine [our] flaws.\" In short, the stuff of art-this gorgeous arc that doesn't shy from \"digging deep.\"\u003cstrong\u003e-Francisco Aragón\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of\u003cem\u003e After Rubén\u003c\/em\u003e, Director of Letras Latinas\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 84\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 21, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42719880314943,"sku":"9798888380031","price":34.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/62efdcb6c9e728e5eb9e5fa0b45a336a.webp?v=1765087209","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/iron-into-flower-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}