{"product_id":"pink-poems-paperback","title":"Pink: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSylvie Baumgartel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sharp, visceral new collection of poetry that touches on art, history, sex, bodies, language, and the color pink \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe sack of Rome, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe siege of Florence.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe lights twinkle pink in Fiesole.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePink furls, pink buds.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWet pink veiny hearts in spring.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePink can mean so many things.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSylvie Baumgartel's \u003ci\u003ePink\u003c\/i\u003e moves from the shadow of the Ponte Vecchio to a mission church in Santa Fe, from \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail \u003c\/i\u003ereports to a photograph of a girl from Tierra del Fuego, from a grandmother's advice (\"Don't go to Smith and don't get fat\") to legs wrapped around \"a man who calls me \u003ci\u003ecake\u003c\/i\u003e.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBaumgartel, a poet of fierce, intimate, wry language, delivers a second collection about art, history, violence, bodies, fear, pain, reckoning, and transcendence. The poems travel back to the historical, linguistic, and emotional sources of things while surging forward with a stirring momentum, creating a whirlwind of birth and destruction.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSylvie Baumgartel\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eSong of Songs \u003c\/i\u003e(FSG, 2019). Her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Subtropics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Raritan\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Virginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the PEN Poetry series, and \u003ci\u003eThe Unprofessionals: New American Writing from \"The Paris Review.\"\u003c\/i\u003e She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.32 x 7.8 x 4.96 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 22, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42692439769151,"sku":"9780374604868","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/2b4a60b00898c04570fa26623e234256.webp?v=1764995460","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/pink-poems-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}