{"product_id":"garden-in-kentucky","title":"Garden in Kentucky","description":"In this collection Jane Gentry evokes, in images as haunting as the Kentucky landscape, a garden thriving with the flowers of memory, a physical world that reflects a realm of transcendence. In this garden, cosmic harmony reveals itself in the \"\"ciphers\"\" of roots and worms, in a piece of blue willow china, \"\"a blaze of balance, of wholeness\"\", that survives a fire in which a lonely, tormented neighbor died.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe white sheets crack in the wind,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e fat bellies of sails\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e sweet as round stomachs of children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStark, lovely, elegiac, gently surreal, Gentry's poems resonate and echo in the vast spaces of the heart; long after being read, lines return, lines like those of the lovely \"\"In the Moment of My Death (For My Father)\"\" that beg to be memorized:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the moment of my death\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e may your old happiness light my way;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e and the image of your face\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e smiling, happy at my coming,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e be a lantern in the dark.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe taste of desire, the pang of remembered loss, the sorrow of leaving a house, Jane Gentry has found a way to make these things new. \u003ci\u003eA Garden in Kentucky\u003c\/i\u003e is a place of mystery, terror, beauty, and wonder, a garden to which readers will find themselves retuning again and again.","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55807339594072,"sku":"9780807120033","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780807120033.jpg?v=1778015725","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/garden-in-kentucky","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}