{"product_id":"iron-into-flower-9798888380031","title":"Iron into Flower","description":"\"You must change your life, \/ say the rabbis of old\" begins a poem from \u003cem\u003eIron into Flower, \u003c\/em\u003e Yvette Neisser's second collection. Like those rabbis, Neisser's deceptively simple poems pose age-old questions about memory, identity, love, faith, and morality. And when calamity strikes-a death, an auto accident, a divorce-the poems' speaker, also named \"Yvette Neisser,\" does indeed change her life, reclaiming her body, her identity, even her name. Timeless rituals-the sun's arc, the passing of the seasons, the quiet pleasures of making tea and flipping tortillas-help reassure even the most troubled souls who haunt these poems. Neisser writes, \"Bless us all, the whole imperfect lot of us.\" And she means it: these are poems of healing and grace.\u003cstrong\u003e-Katherine E. Young\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eWoman Drinking Absinthe, \u003c\/em\u003e Poet Laureate Emerita, Arlington, VA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eIron into Flower \u003c\/em\u003edoesn't pull any punches as we readers are drawn into a landscape of loss: Auschwitz, Gaza, the body, first loves, and even depression's loss of color, as 'orange and red cascade\/ and crumble into brown, \/ then earth, \/ then bareness.' In these moving and rhythmic texts where Neisser's children's faces are 'all that matter, ' the poet finds beauty and strength in her yearning to 'learn the shape of faith.'\u003cstrong\u003e-Nancy Naomi Carlson\u003c\/strong\u003e, Author of \u003cem\u003eAn Infusion of Violets\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI relished this dual-journey of a book, where mother traverses the Deep South in the mid-sixties on her way to Mexico. But also landscapes of memory-a hike with father, where \"the years have etched rings around my life\"-in poem after poem the arresting passage of time; or a kind of lifespan within a single poem, from \"the pull of oars up the quiet river...to \"the closing of eyelids.\" But we also encounter work that doesn't flinch in the face of harrowing histories-pieces that \"shine a mirror inside [our]selves \/ examine [our] flaws.\" In short, the stuff of art-this gorgeous arc that doesn't shy from \"digging deep.\"\u003cstrong\u003e-Francisco Aragón\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of\u003cem\u003e After Rubén\u003c\/em\u003e, Director of Letras Latinas\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\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-15732300\"\u003eYvette Neisser\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Finishing Line Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798888380031\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8888380035\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-POE000000\"\u003eGeneral\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Finishing Line Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44455657308397,"sku":"8888380035","price":20.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_d5495f66-42c7-4278-97c6-3600e0347de9.jpg?v=1700389758","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/iron-into-flower-9798888380031","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}