{"product_id":"blue-electrode-paperback","title":"Blue Electrode - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMargaret Gilbert\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The poet's work to establish agency in the midst of sickness is so clear and hard fought, that one is filled with admiration and wonderment at the ability to carry the reader so deep into her journey with all of its subcurrents.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-MARY STEWART HAMMOND\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eOut of Canaan\u003c\/em\u003e (W.W. Norton, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1991) \u0026amp;\u003cem\u003e Entering History\u003c\/em\u003e (W.W. Norton, 2016)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"These poems interrogate seizure disorder and recovery, its spectrum, the people around it, family, community. In those waters swim a sense of history, distortion, victimhood, the inevitability of scapegoating, in fact, discrimination and racism. The poems themselves seize. Their strongest light is their willingness to inhabit the very \"kindling\" of the neurons, \"the highway clothed in goldenrod.\" Indeed, as the poet writes in \"Blue Electrode,\" the title poem, \"Yes, my mother thinks to herself\/ tying her torn scarf, \/ the words Epilepsy and Woe\/ are synonymous.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-RALPH BURNS\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eauthor of \u003cem\u003ebut not yet\u003c\/em\u003e (Lynx House Press, 2017) Winner of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Blue Lynx Poetry Prize, \u0026amp; \u003cem\u003eGhost Notes\u003c\/em\u003e (Oberlin College Press, 2000), \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of The\u003cem\u003e Field\u003c\/em\u003e Poetry Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 42\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.1 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 13, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67971383001342,"sku":"9781646625406","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0826\/8716\/4670\/files\/yhExjZEaJ19781646625406.webp?v=1793721090","url":"https:\/\/123learningstore.com\/products\/blue-electrode-paperback","provider":"123 Learning Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}