{"product_id":"alias-irene-9781594981920","title":"Alias Irene","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eAlias Irene\u003c\/em\u003e, acclaimed poet Elisabeth Murawski turns a blazing, unflinching eye toward the moments that shape us-those fragments of childhood, faith, family, and loss that echo long after they pass. With a voice both taut and tender, Murawski crafts poems alive with startling imagery and emotional precision: skies that \"toss back black balloons,\" purple crocuses that \"survive late snow to die,\" a little girl renamed over a carnival loudspeaker, claimed like a misplaced coat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross four seamlessly linked sections, Murawski moves between the intimately personal and the imaginatively far-reaching, drawing on landscapes from Hiroshima to the Sangre de Cristo mountains, from kitchen floors polished to a shine to the dark terrain of grief and memory. Her speakers navigate a world held together by an \"invisible thread\" of faith-one that strains, frays, and sometimes breaks, yet continues to bind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriting with the sculpted intensity of Emily Dickinson and the intellectual clarity of Anne Carson, Murawski invites readers to sit inside the questions her poems ask: How do we hold what we cannot keep? How do we live beside our ghosts? What do we name ourselves when the old names fail?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlias Irene\u003c\/em\u003e is a luminous, aching, and deeply human collection-an offering of grace in a world that often feels unsteady. These are poems that honor the fragile, resilient heart that keeps returning, again and again, to its longing for wholeness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMurawski, Elisabeth:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Elisabeth Murawski is the author of Heiress, Zorba's Daughter (May Swenson Poetry Award), Moon and Mercury, and three chapbooks, including Still Life with Timex, which won the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize. Prizes for individual poems include the University of Canberra's International Poetry Prize, the Graybeal-Gowen Award, and the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize. Murawski has received thirteen Pushcart nominations. Originally from Chicago, she currently lives in Alexandria, Virginia.","brand":"Fernwood Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51967017648402,"sku":"9781594981920","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1ac4cad9-d74a-4456-978b-d68811548651.jpg?v=1768920366","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/alias-irene-9781594981920","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}