{"product_id":"life-drawing-paperback","title":"Life Drawing - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The poems in \u003cem\u003eLife Drawing\u003c\/em\u003e come from a painterly perspective that loves the colors and textures of life. Germain's sensibility is generous: 'I rummage things of childhood\/ to find lost blessings' and 'What is given astonishes.' A central tension of the book is the way she grapples with life's hard paradoxes: truth versus embellishing, salt versus sugar, blood and bone versus soul. It's a poetry that embraces the ordinary and sees art as a way to both praise, and make sense of, the world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Joseph Powell, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Slow Subtraction: ALS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eLife Drawing\u003c\/em\u003e, Carmen Germain captures moments with a painter's eye and an appetite avid for delight: 'dawn blooming vermilion, ' unripe blackberries 'green as Chinese \/ porcelain, ' a moon that rises 'like a cabbage.' In 'The Fixed Stars, ' van Gogh works 'with nothing in his belly but milk \/ and dry bread.' Everywhere, Germain offers us the rewards of such devotion, as in 'Before Time': 'my hand in a woman's handprint \/ from the eleventh century, my fingerbones \/ in place of hers.'\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Bethany Reid, author of\u003cem\u003e Sparrow\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50625509785823,"sku":"9781936657681","price":17.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/eUlJPAVbwP9781936657681.webp?v=1785607356","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/life-drawing-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}