{"product_id":"particular-scandals-hardcover","title":"Particular Scandals - Hardcover","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\u003eJulie L. Moore\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBroad in scope--theological, ecological, and personal--and acutely particular in details--witnessed and lived--the affecting poems in Particular Scandals explore how one endures suffering, avoiding the cliches of both bitterness and transcendence. Thus, while Moore's poetry depicts the debilitating ruin illness wreaks, it also embraces the beauty and mystery in creation, in faith, even in tribulation itself. At the book's core is pure paradox and insightful integration, wedding Christmas--Christ's incarnation and eventual, willing sacrifice--to pain and grief. Thus, on the heels of Moore's multiple surgeries and amid her husband's serious heart problem--both while in their forties--come \"flashes of hallelujah\" and songs knit with Amens \"un- \/ broken, like a world without end.\" Empathetic and observant, Moore's evocative poems also turn their attention to friends' and other family members' appalling losses: a stillborn infant, suicidal adolescents, molested, and trafficked children. All in all, the book portrays how Moore survives like the Sycamore tree in one of her poems, \"scabbed and scarred from moments like this,\" offering her \"empty self \/ like a cup to the Lord of the storm.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulie L. Moore is the author of \u003ci\u003eSlipping Out of Bloom\u003c\/i\u003e (2010) and the chapbook \u003ci\u003eElection Day\u003c\/i\u003e (2006). Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice and Best of the Net and has appeared both in anthologies and in publications like \u003ci\u003eThe Christian Century, The Missouri Review Online, The Southern Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVerse Daily\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Cedarville, Ohio, where she's the Writing Center Director at Cedarville University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 04, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46079241388229,"sku":"9781498216388","price":40.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/GB0akXT83S9781498216388.webp?v=1776021237","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/particular-scandals-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}