{"product_id":"stitching-porcelain-poetry","title":"Stitching Porcelain: Poetry","description":"Stitching Porcelain, Deborah Larsen's first book of poetry, is a narrative-lyric sequence based on the life of Matteo Ricci, the resourceful Jesuit who entered China in 1583 and stayed for a quarter century. Pondering cultural accommodation as well as faith, many of the poems center on actual events: Ricci's dressing as a Buddhist; his awe-inspiring map (with China shrewdly centered); his prostration before an empty Dragon Throne. Other events the poet imagined. (In the title room, Ricci addresses a love lyric to China: \"Your porcelain is so fine, so thin,\/a brass wire can repair it . . . \/Once I saw you beneath the bamboo\/ . . . bent back\/from the world, stitching porcelain.\") With a felicity rare in a debut volume, Larsen's opalescent poetry works in perfect counterpoint to the strange and brilliant Ricci.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54222152008024,"sku":"9780811211611","price":13.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/stitching-porcelain-poetry","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}