{"product_id":"lifting-myself-by-my-own-toes-paperback","title":"Lifting Myself By My Own Toes - 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\u003eBd Feil\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In this first collection by Midwest writer BD Feil, \u003cem\u003eLifting Myself By My Own Toes\u003c\/em\u003e, the poems pull from experiences and observations across the Great Lakes, from the cities of Chicago and Cleveland to the rurality of southeast Michigan and of northwest Ohio. Through memory and trial, familial legend and Nature, Feil examines the comfort of place and the discomfort of misplacement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In the first group of poems, \"well-meaning strokes,\" BD Feil muses on the vitality of words and graspings at meaning. In \"A Reading\" he bemoans at jumping to a taste, a heavy burden akin to lifting \"himself by his own toes.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The next group of poems, \"savages and monsters,\" alternates between standing inside and outside Nature, not only in the idealized worlds of \"Heaven\" and \"Night\" but in the longer poems of \"Monster\" and \"In Which Mrs. Adams Observes And Passes Judgment On The Cottonwood And The Goldfinch\" where observation spins into running narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In the poems of \"red-knuckled apples,\" Feil likens himself to fruit \"left hanging to the end\" andf digs into memory, of his own and of his family. In \"Visiting\" he remembers eavesdropping on stories peopled with \"names like Florence and Rhiney and two Edwins.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Finally, the last section, \"now is the time for the sighing,\" deals with the quest for place, either in the larger universe or in the intimacy of the mirror as in \"Boy and a Button\" where a child lays out his likes and dislikes all the while \"his little fingers weaving\/ exquisite patterns against\/ a bright blue sky no one\/ but him has ever noticed.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Poems in this collection by BD Feil have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes as well as appearing in journals like \u003cem\u003ePoet Lore, Slice Magazine, The Penn Review, New Plains Review, Margie, \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Plainsongs\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 84\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 21, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52728613470515,"sku":"9781646625048","price":35.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/TXpia3ZpTk53T2xnREVSMHBucVNwUT09.webp?v=1763787624","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/lifting-myself-by-my-own-toes-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}