{"product_id":"the-slow-subtraction-als-9781936657483","title":"The Slow Subtraction: A.L.S.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I've never read anything remotely like The Slow Subtraction: A.L.S., Joseph Powell's deeply loving collection that tracks how it is to lose the beloved one day at a time. These profoundly beautiful poems broach the place that\u003cbr\u003e Emily Dickinson called 'internal difference, \/ Where the meanings, are.' Honesty is a difficult art; you will feel its powers grieve and restore you, over and over.\"\u003cbr\u003e Nancy Eimers, author of Oz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The Slow Subtraction is a stunning, heartbreaking collection made more poignant for Powell's trenchant eye on the devastations caused by A.L.S on his late wife, the poet Judith Kleck. This chronology of subtractions to 'the\u003cbr\u003e staircase \/ of her brain, ' and the ravages of a body's gradual dying, create a luminous elegy. The 'opulence in the skin's sweet torment' might feel like 'all the back doors opened into coffins of alley light, ' but there is grace\u003cbr\u003e here, enlarging 'the sway of events, \/the way pettiness is candleflicker against the passing night.'\"\u003cbr\u003e Adrianne Kalfopoulou, author of The History of Too Much\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph Powell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Moonpath Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781936657483","brand":"Moonpath Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45521338892425,"sku":"9781936657483","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_b544e321-a895-42cb-a03c-7f143c55d8c6.jpg?v=1776227374","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-slow-subtraction-als-9781936657483","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}