{"product_id":"dying-for-beauty-poems-9781556591358","title":"Dying for Beauty: Poems","description":"Whether paying tribute to literary icons such as Walt Whitman and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, or examining global and cultural degradation, Wronsky proves to be a poet of sharp wit and endearing wonder. The crowning jewel of \u003ci\u003eDying for Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e is \"Desdemona,\" a nearly book-length lyric that alternates between meditation and dramatization, between discourse and incantation. \"I started out thinking I was writing an elegy for the earth - from my own self, in my own neighborhood, with its crack addicts and war-like helicopters, its poverty and ?lthiness...And yet also, here I was with a new daughter and this love in me, equal to nothing else.\"\u003cp\u003e\"Formally, the poem ['Desdemona'] brings into its amplitude and openness material that could be inert, but is lifted always by rhythmic urgency and a faultless, inventive music....Wronsky is also trying to think through the poem, reason passionately through its issues of language, gender, fear and loss.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGail Wronsky\u003c\/b\u003e received a BA and an MFA from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. from the University of Utah. She is the author of two books of poetry and teaches at Loyola-Marymount University in Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gail Wronsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.93h x 5.49w x 0.28d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556591358\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42728697168009,"sku":"9781556591358","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_66dae819-7185-4706-93ed-1d80a51c02ec.jpg?v=1719897555","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/dying-for-beauty-poems-9781556591358","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}