{"product_id":"blue-hour-9780060099138","title":"Blue Hour","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eBlue Hour\u003c\/em\u003e is an elusive book, because it is ever in pursuit of what the German poet Novalis called 'the [lost] presence beyond appearance.' The longest poem, 'On Earth, ' is a transcription of mind passing from life into death, in the form of an abecedary, modeled on ancient gnostic hymns. Other poems in the book, especially 'Nocturne' and 'Blue Hour, ' are lyric recoveries of the act of remembering, though the objects of memory seem to us vivid and irretrievable, the rage to summon and cling at once fierce and distracted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The voice we hear in \u003cem\u003eBlue Hour\u003c\/em\u003e is a voice both very young and very old. It belongs to someone who has seen everything and who strives imperfectly, desperately, to be equal to what she has seen. The hunger to know is matched here by a desire to be new, totally without cynicism, open to the shocks of experience as if perpetually for the first time, though unillusioned, wise beyond any possible taint of a false or assumed innocence.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-- Robert Boyers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eForche, Carolyn:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eCarolyn Forché is the author of \u003cem\u003eGathering the Tribes, \u003c\/em\u003e winner of the Yale Younger Poets Award; \u003cem\u003eThe Country Between Us, \u003c\/em\u003e which received awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Poetry Society of America; and \u003cem\u003eThe Angel of History, \u003c\/em\u003e awarded the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e Book Award. She is also the editor of the anthology \u003cem\u003eAgainst Forgetting: Twentieth-Centuly Poetry of Witness.\u003c\/em\u003e Recently she was presented with the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation Award for Peace and Culture in Stockholm. She lives in Maryland with her husband and son.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50727746306322,"sku":"9780060099138","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_97d37eca-8dc7-45b6-ab46-0f257839e0f4.jpg?v=1734920293","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/blue-hour-9780060099138","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}