{"product_id":"labor-paperback-1","title":"Labor - 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\u003eLisa Desiro\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I have to keep looking; try to see more, speak more, turn away less,\" says Lisa DeSiro in her fine first book, Labor. And this is what her poems do: they keep their eyes peeled, their ears open, and their hearts receptive. (Boston street bustle comes vividly alive in many of these poems.) But receptivity demands a tolerance for paradox, and DeSiro's poems--in disarmingly simple, idiomatic language--plumb the secrets of the world's contradictions. \"Go ahead, enjoy this day\" begins a poem titled \"9\/11 Anniversary, Public Garden.\" At home with the prose poem as well as the tightly rhymed lyric, DeSiro distills memorable music from the most colloquial moments--\"We were all thumbs on our dumb phones\"--and offers readers a vibrant panoply of sights and sounds, captured and conveyed in her impressively taut writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-- Steven Cramer, author of \u003cem\u003eClangings\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGoodbye to the Orchard\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.15 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46247111917765,"sku":"9780999397138","price":18.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/KbwZ542gfF9780999397138.webp?v=1779242387","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/labor-paperback-1","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}