{"product_id":"the-heaven-sent-leaf-paperback","title":"The Heaven-Sent Leaf - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKaty Lederer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Heaven-Sent Leaf\u003c\/i\u003e, Katy Lederer draws on her experience as both acclaimed younger poet and brainworker at a hedge fund in midtown Manhattan to produce an uncannily prescient work of high lyric. Though on its surface \u003ci\u003eThe Heaven-Sent Leaf\u003c\/i\u003e addresses that most taboo of subjects--money--what it ultimately confronts is what it means to be, as Wallace Stevens put it, finally human. Working in the tradition of the flaneur, Lederer charts her speakers' interior landscapes according to the city's highly monetized geography, viewing life in the big city through the lens of expenditure--not just of money, but of all that money signifies. In poems that are both heartfelt and ruthlessly critical of our current financial milieu, in which the fates of individuals are packaged, priced out, and then bundled for sale on the open market, Lederer proves Robert Graves's famous observation wrong: though there may be no money in poetry, there is indeed poetry in money.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSparkling and strange, acrobatic but never evasive, clear-eyed about its own emotional life even as it takes semantics for a tumble, Katy Lederer's book-length sequence of not-quite-sonnets measures up to its contemporaries as a chronicle of love in and out of a life, in dramatis personae and in the poet's own soul: it excels all those contemporaries, and swerves away from almost all its precedents, in following at once the love and the money.--Stephen Burt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese lyrically crisp poems chronicle the poet (gendered female) as 'brainworker' in contemporary New York. Where is prayer? Where nature? Where love? They are not to be found on the dizzying streetscape as seen from the top of an office building, but in the head and the heart of the poet buffeted by money-drenched dreams. 'I hate to be alone' Lederer writes, in the perfect 'Parable of Times Square.' But in this poem, and indeed this book, the remedy to the cold solitude of cash-getting is not other people but poetry.--Jennifer Moxley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKaty Lederer \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eWinter Sex \u003c\/i\u003e(Wave Books, 2002) and the memoir \u003ci\u003ePoker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers \u003c\/i\u003e(Crown Publishers, 2003), which \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003eincluded on its list of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2003 and \u003ci\u003eEsquire \u003c\/i\u003enamed one of its eight Best Books of the Year in 2003.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKaty Lederer is author of the poetry collection, Winter Sex (Verse Press, 2002) and memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Crown, 2003), which Publishers Weekly included as Best Nonfiction Books of 2003 and Esquire Magazine named one of its eight Best Books of the Year 2003. She holds degrees from University of California at Berkeley and Iowa Writers' Workshop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.19 x 8.9 x 6.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42692948787263,"sku":"9781934414156","price":19.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/48fff655655cb23e54d8feb4ee9069d7.webp?v=1764997202","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-heaven-sent-leaf-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}