{"product_id":"back-to-the-light-poems-9780813181158","title":"Back to the Light: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed poet George Ella Lyon returns with a brilliant new collection that traces the arc of a woman's life from girlhood to mature womanhood. In answer to the first poem, \"Little Girl Who Knows Too Much,\" Lyon embarks on a journey from a child who was silenced to \"Some Big Loud Woman\" who claims the right to a voice. Along the way she meets allies and guides including Dickinson, Woolf, Mary Travers, Grace Paley, and the giver of dreams. As sailors once navigated by the stars, so Lyon navigates by these luminaries. They are not distant, though. Their light is always near.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlternately witty, tender, shocking, and visionary, \u003ci\u003eBack to the Light\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the reunion of body and spirit, truth and story. In the process, it demonstrates the power of poetry to liberate and to heal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Ella Lyon\u003c\/b\u003e, a former Kentucky Poet Laureate, is the award-winning author of more than fifty books for children and adults. Among her poetry collections are \u003ci\u003eVoices of Justice, Many-Storied House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShe Let Herself Go, Voices from the March on Washington\u003c\/i\u003e (Cybils Award for Poetry) \u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCatalpa\u003c\/i\u003e (Appalachian Writers Association Book of the Year). Her poem \"Where I'm From\" is featured in the PBS series \u003ci\u003eThe United States of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and has become a model for teachers around the world. She lives in Lexington, Kentucky.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Kentucky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50495236276498,"sku":"9780813181158","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_58690234-78cd-4c3a-93a0-ecefb77af36c.jpg?v=1730676236","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/back-to-the-light-poems-9780813181158","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}