{"product_id":"how-she-came-here-paperback","title":"How She Came Here - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBarbara Elovic\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow She Came Here\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e by Barbara Elovic opens with prophetic lines: \"Not the alarm clock but\/hope gets you out of bed in the morning,\" and moves through a childhood where \"Henka the phantom cousin joins the dance\/of creatures conjured from memory or guilt,\" and \"girls were culled from boys\/to guard the Talmud pages.\" Imelda Marcos declares, \"I am opulence.\" Anne Frank is an adult in a park \"where the sun is so strong\/we must shade our eyes\" and a father is buried in \"ground too hard to take him in.\" Cousins and a rabbi \"straining in their suits\/and dress shoes, knocking\/with their small shovels\/on frozen dirt to cover the coffin.\" Hope binds these distinctly varied stories. It compels the narrative forward in this spellbinding collection that closes with a literal beacon of hope, \"the Kentile Floors sign, its neon seen\/from the lurching F train,\" proof of what remains unchanged, appearing when we least expect it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Lynn McGee, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eTracks\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSober\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCooking, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeirloom Bulldog;\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e co-author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eStarting Over in Sunset Park\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow She Came Here\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e sing with a subtle music that aches in the knowledge that our hope is always under threat. As one of them says, \"How small the space between breathing and not.\" Elovic relentlessly confronts difficult truths about our history, about the lies we tell ourselves. In meditations, in vignettes, in portraits of historical figures, she illuminates our present in light of our past; she illuminates our identity in light of our strained ties to each other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Michael T. Young, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Infinite Doctrine of Water\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and many other books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime Out\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e have hard emotional and intellectual work to do: \u003cbr\u003eThey propose to repair a frayed link between a daughter and her dying father.\u003cbr\u003eThe poems are so accurate and scrupulous that they not only succeed, but\u003cbr\u003ealso come to embody some of the blessing they strove so carefully to invoke.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-William Matthews (1942--1997) author of eleven books of poems and winner of the \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eNational Book Critics Circle Award\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 92\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.22 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 30, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53344526336307,"sku":"9781639801114","price":32.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/mrtJMGH45L9781639801114.webp?v=1778725878","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/how-she-came-here-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}