{"title":"Lena Moses-Schmitt","description":"Lena Moses-Schmitt is a writer and artist. Her work has appeared in The Believer, Best New Poets, Narrative, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. She currently lives in New York.","products":[{"product_id":"true-mistakes-paperback","title":"True Mistakes - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist, 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In her debut collection \u003ci\u003eTrue Mistakes\u003c\/i\u003e, the poet Lena Moses-Schmitt unleashes her powers of scrutiny on herself and on works of art to interrogate the essential nature of consciousness, identity, and time. \u003cp\u003eAs the poet goes about daily life-taking long walks, painting at her desk, going to work, grappling with the deaths of friends, struggling with anxiety and depression-she ruminates on the boundaries between art and reality, grief and joy, living and imagining. For Moses-Schmitt, thought, like painting, is relentlessly high-stakes: \"I often think about things so hard \/ I kill them.\" And: \"Is it possible to paint myself so precisely \/ I disappear? Can I remember myself \/ so completely I'm erased?\" In the context of such ruminations, the poet's reflections on David Hockney's seminal pool paintings shimmer with sublimity and insight.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorking to turn \"mistakes\"-misperceptions, errors in life and in art-into sites of possibility and imagination instead of failure or confusion, Moses-Schmitt offers \"a truth for every reader,\" writes series editor Patricia Smith.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378532090079,"sku":"9781682262702","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Z_uEpUH-Il9781682262702.webp?v=1789257988"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/lena-moses-schmitt.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}