{"product_id":"please-hold-paperback","title":"Please Hold - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMuriel Nelson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003ePlease Hold\u003c\/em\u003e there's melody, jazzy dissonance, flashes of tonal change, freshness of sound and image. Consider \"hummingbirds\/ buzz like balloons' loose lips,\" and \"what if\/ from the ugliest mouth on the corner, love stuck\/out its bent lightning tongue?\" As old Bruce in \"Sonnet on Air\" says, \"only motion and cognition matter.\" \u003cem\u003ePlease Hold\u003c\/em\u003e is full of both, its music alive with the snicker of oboes, inspired puns, silvery thuds, cries and laughter, pain and disconcerting beauty. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Patricia Corbus, winner of the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2015 Off the Grid Poetry prize for \u003cem\u003eFinestra's Window\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlease Hold\u003c\/em\u003e's scintillant wit and virtuoso imagination enliven and mourn pandemic's hermitage, its \"slow kind of rain.\" When \"you've gone a bit crazy...sequestered,\" \"touch and go\" have lost their meanings, when fear \"thumbs glissandos\/up your bone xylophone,\" gargoyles grow eloquent, God \"contours love with dark,\" and truth produces its green heresies: \"When we fall sick, the teeter totters, and weeds inherit the earth.\" As rumors and lies surround us, these eclectic, ethical poems push back-\"it's a shady business, so here come the pines.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Eleanor Wilner, winner of the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Frost Medal for lifetime achievement\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 40\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.1 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 21, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42735467266111,"sku":"9781645991779","price":22.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/ccb077adcafb2b8ed444d4d80500046a.webp?v=1765143562","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/please-hold-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}