{"product_id":"bite-every-sorrow","title":"Bite Every Sorrow","description":"This is a splendid book, morally serious, poetically authentic, spiritually discerning. - C. K. Williams, from his judge's citation for the 1997 Walt Whitman Award Barbara Ras, a poet exquisitely heedful of nuance both physical and visceral, cinches deserved renown with this prize-winning debut collection. \u003ci\u003eBite Every Sorrow\u003c\/i\u003e invites the reader to embrace beauty, loss, outrage, and the world in all its particular heartbreaks and hilarities, because, as Ras asks, \"\"What's life without the details?\"\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer ability to tap the ordinary and draw forth profundity is brilliantly displayed in \"\"You Can't Have It All:\"\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut you can have the fig tree and its fat leaves like clown handsgloved with green. You can have the touch of a single eleven-year-old fingeron your cheek, waking you at one a.m. to say the hamster is back. You can have the purr of the cat and the soulful lookof the black dog, the look that says, If I could I would biteevery sorrow until it fled\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether honoring a dead friend or reveling in the lustful music of insects, Ras's poems poke into unlikely nooks and invented crannies, uncovering questions that matter to everyone - how to laugh, how to hope, how to love.","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55807345295704,"sku":"9780807122648","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780807122648_3155dd1f-4932-4dd7-9bfc-c21ded14d7d9.jpg?v=1778015726","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/bite-every-sorrow","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}