{"product_id":"after-image-9781556596957","title":"After Image","description":"\u003cb\u003eWoven from dreamlike and echoing images, \u003ci\u003eAfter Image\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003etravels between life and death, between a living body and its absence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA house, an orchard, \"a shudder of blossoms.\" A fountain, a bed, a sudden spring snow. Carefully woven from a dreamlike set of images which echo and reconfigure throughout the collection, the poems in Jenny George's \u003ci\u003eAfter Image\u003c\/i\u003e hug the cusp between life and death, between a living body and its absence. \"And in the space \/ left behind--\" Time slips. Eurydice muses on the gestures of the living, and we look out from inside the removed head of Orpheus. The laughing gods and the furies make appearances too, and the poet's persona appears as its own character--the observing self, navigating the strangenesses of grief's terrain. Unsentimental yet pulsing with love, each cutting and transcendent poem is relentless in its willingness to see, to hold both the impossibility and inevitability of transformation. In scenes that hover between the ordinary, the imagined, and the unknowable, and with George's sly, meticulous simplicity, \u003ci\u003eAfter Image\u003c\/i\u003e asks what lingers in the face of death and what falls away.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJenny George is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dream of Reason\u003c\/i\u003e (Copper Canyon Press, 2018). She is also a winner of the Discovery\/Boston Review Poetry Prize and a recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Lannan Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. Her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, Ploughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNarrative\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Jenny lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she works in social justice philanthropy.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50895240102162,"sku":"9781556596957","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f2af6604-ec49-4324-b6b5-016feaee9264.jpg?v=1738268426","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/after-image-9781556596957","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}