{"product_id":"hand-signs-from-eternitys-yurt-9781639801312","title":"Hand Signs from Eternity's Yurt","description":"In Diane Raptosh's terrific new collection, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eHand Signs from Eternity's Yurt, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewe find sonnets of rare visionary range, lyric density, and expressive power, inspired by the writings of Mary Midgely, a philosopher so sorely overlooked, though given here a contemporary address in the meditative heart and the polis of the political imagination. Such work, born of speculative hunger, reverence, conscience, and civic unease, explores an \"age of seclusion\" wherein the boundaries of fixed form mirror the rooms we live in, write in, speak from, aware our privacies cannot be extricated from the world at large. While sonnets here admit a figurative kinship with exclusionary spaces, they do so if only to open their windows to the threat of such exclusions. They seek, in their scale, precision, and largesse of resonance, to intensify our attention to detail and what, therefore, we have to lose, to mourn, to praise, to honor in the complexity of the human and its margins. These are the songs, so timely in their incisiveness, that teach us \"the most slowly debuted \/ state of risk.\" A phenomenal book. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -Bruce Bond, \u003cbr\u003e author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ePatmos\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 21-plus-one sonnets provoked by and tethered to quotes drawn from the work of British philosopher Mary Midgley, you know right away from her very first words what Diane Raptosh cares about: \"I prize what praise phrases\" is her flagship declaration that sound is queen in this realm. What follows is a series of inventively packaged powerplants of sonic signification, poems that yield just as many \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eaha\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e moments as \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eooh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e moments in their condensed and intensified engagement with big questions. Do you detect underlying trumpet voluntaries on the themes of informed resistance and revolutionary compassion? Yes, you most certainly do.\u003cbr\u003e -Karen Donovan, \u003cbr\u003e author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlanet Parable\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewithin multi-author volume \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her gorgeous new collection, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eHand Signs from Eternity's Yurt, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e Diane Raptosh extends the \"conscious recoupling of feeling \/ with thought\" that makes all of her work so powerful. Here, with the words of philosopher Mary Midgley as provocations for each poem, Raptosh contravenes the \"structures that lure [people] \/ to cruelty,\" not with cruelty in return but with a gift, \"lines \/ of plucked tones,\" to be savored as she plucks them, and to hear resonating long afterward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e -H.L. Hix, \u003cbr\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Death of H.L. Hix\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-1020879\"\u003eDiane Raptosh\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelsay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/22\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 38\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.08d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639801312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1639801316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE024000\"\u003eWomen Authors\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44570492141805,"sku":"9781639801312","price":20.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_07f539f3-65ae-49f2-98c0-f5b4e879d483.jpg?v=1701935648","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/hand-signs-from-eternitys-yurt-9781639801312","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}