{"product_id":"to-be-nonchalantly-alive-paperback","title":"To be Nonchalantly Alive - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKerry Trautman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Kerry Trautman's new collection, \u003ci\u003eTo Be Nonchalantly Alive, \u003c\/i\u003eit's all about simplicity. It's the smells of bananas, cardamom, and soot, the tastes of fudge and hosewater, the sounds of glass bottles breaking against each other. Trautman's complexity manifests in her descriptions of these simple things. In \"To the Pineapple,\" she asks \"Why would you come here in August \/ when Ohio fields orgasm into baskets?\" In \"Jeanne Calment of France,\" she wonders \"Did she know who he was- \/ Van Gogh-... noting his eyes glazed \/ like halved oysters in their liquor.\" Her observations are artfully executed by words and phrases splashed boldly and brilliantly on the page. In \u003ci\u003eTo Be Nonchalantly Alive, \u003c\/i\u003e Trautman is anything but nonchalant. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDianne Borsenik, publisher NightBallet Press, author \u003ci\u003eRaga for What Comes Next\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike a patchwork quilt, \u003ci\u003eTo Be Nonchalantly Alive\u003c\/i\u003e sews together the varied facets of community life-family, food, faith, celebration, death-with the threads of keen observation and lyrical language. By turns probing, reflective, and compassionate, Trautman invites us into her world with invocations of earth, air, fire, and water. Their varied manifestations illuminate everyday experiences in ways that are as rewarding as the human connections created and reinforced in gathering around a table for a good meal. In this feast for the senses and the soul, no reader will go home hungry. \u003ci\u003eSteve Abbott, author \u003ci\u003eA Green Line Between Green Fields\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Language the Image Speaks, \u003c\/i\u003eeditor \u003ci\u003eCommon Threads\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 10, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42709476900927,"sku":"9781952326134","price":29.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/f187d6cd496c1ec86d8347f3b703211d.webp?v=1765051570","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/to-be-nonchalantly-alive-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}