{"product_id":"shakespeare-stein-walk-into-a-bar-paperback","title":"Shakespeare \u0026 Stein Walk Into A Bar - 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\u003eKatherine Hastings\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Katherine Hastings' poems play with consciousness on many levels. Nature, literature, and human experience catch memorably within the threads of their dense and startling webs.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAnnie Finch\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and Stein Walk into a Bar\u003c\/i\u003e is animated by the two most rewarding and replenishing of poetic forces: dexterous formal diversity and a fierce, unflinching searching. \"Where to go from here?\" the book begins, lifting us through \"the world we've left to ourselves\" and singing us at last to the still point where \"We, too, dissolve\" with \"all of it finding its way - somewhere.\" \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and Stein Walk into a Bar\u003c\/i\u003e is more than a collection of poems; it is a quest fulfilled by destination. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMalachi Black\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Dear William Shakespeare, an heiress has appeared! Historians can't trace the Bard's descendants too far after his daughters, but a Shakespearean sonneteer has mysteriously reappeared in the form of Katherine Hastings and her wildly compelling sonnets. What eloquence! What originality! And what poems for the ages!\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLee Slonimsky\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Whether she is exploring memory or embracing loss or love, Katherine Hastings so fully inhabits these poems that the reader is allowed to surrender to her deft use of language and embark on a journey of the soul, filled with a radiance of spirit that transcends the everyday routines of life, \"..last night in moonlight, long fingers\/of trees signed their language\/ the way deaf women sing...\", and \"There is nowhere to go\/but here on a corner with the unblessed\/supplementing Social Security, \/our shadows merged on hard pavement...\" Finally, these are poems that offer a luminous stillness, mysterious yes, but filled with exquisitely articulated moments that are pitch-perfect. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDevreaux Baker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eKatherine Hastings\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eNighthawks\u003c\/i\u003e (Spuyten Duyvil, 2014) and \u003ci\u003eCloud Fire\u003c\/i\u003e (Spuyten Duyvil, 2012) as well as several chapbooks including \u003ci\u003eSlow Shadow\/White Delirium\u003c\/i\u003e with Lee Slonimsky. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eDigging Our Poetic Roots - Poems from Sonoma County\u003c\/i\u003e (WordTemple Press, 2015) and \u003ci\u003eWhat Redwoods Know - Poems from California State Parks\u003c\/i\u003e, an anthology that was sold as a fund-raiser for the California State Parks Foundation when 70 parks were faced with permanent closure. Hastings is Sonoma County poet laureate emerita, the curator of the WordTemple Poetry Series, and host of WordTemple on NPR affiliate KRCB FM. She grew up in the Cow Hollow neighborhood of San Francisco, received her MFA in Writing from Vermont College, and lives in Santa Rosa, CA. For more information go to www.wordtemple.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 116\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.28 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 16, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53344392184115,"sku":"9781941550793","price":27.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/8xM_r59KTL9781941550793.webp?v=1778725377","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/shakespeare-stein-walk-into-a-bar-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}