{"product_id":"small-pleasures-paperback-1","title":"Small Pleasures - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNikia Leopold\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"These small pleasures of intelligent thoughtful, and thought-provoking poems will warm the reader's heart.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e -Sandra Costich\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"An old song tells us that \"Little things mean a lot,\" and rarely has this been as true as it is in \u003cem\u003eSmall Pleasures, \u003c\/em\u003eNikia Leopold's bittersweet engagements with a glorious and mortal world. The title poem describes \"Pleasures with the heft of tinsel, \/ so small they're irreducible.\" Also irreducible are these sharply observed, precisely crafted poems that contain, and provoke, depths of feeling.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e -Michael Palma\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"If you want to be moved, read these poems.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e -Julia Wendell\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Niki Leopold is an exquisite receiver-of sensory news, complex emotions, hints of meaning. Her poems are passionate, delicate, fierce, brave.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e -Mary Azrael\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The sparse, finely made poems in Niki Leopold's \u003cem\u003eSmall Pleasures \u003c\/em\u003epossess the intricacy of snowflakes, each crystalline portrait revealing the wonder of existence encountered in an ordinary moment.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e -Pauline Uchmanowicz\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNiki Leopold is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars in Poetry, and has a Ph.D. in Art History, also from Hopkins. Her poems have appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe American Scholar, Commonweal, Poetry East\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePoetry\u003c\/em\u003e. Finishing Line Press published her chapbook, \u003cem\u003eDark Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e. Her children's book, \u003cem\u003eAdam's Crayons\u003c\/em\u003e, is out from Galileo Press. She lives with her husband in Ruxton, Maryland.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 36\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.09 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 24, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42708940030015,"sku":"9781886361263","price":17.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/e9ff567748ca5491b26d70787dea9c86.webp?v=1765049643","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/small-pleasures-paperback-1","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}