{"product_id":"bone-flute-a-woman-speaks-9781734496529","title":"Bone Flute: A Woman Speaks","description":"Inspired by Bishop and Dickinson, \u003cem\u003eBone Flute: A Woman Speaks\u003c\/em\u003e by Irene Adler gives equal voice to the unspeakable sorrows and wonders of being alive. Edited by award-winning poet Angela Narciso Torres, this posthumous collection provides a longitudinal poetic record of American life and womanhood echoing Linda Pastan, Mona Van Duyn, and Grace Paley.PRAISE: \"Reading \u003cem\u003eBone Flute\u003c\/em\u003e, we travel with the poet through the seasons of her life, moving through history, through memory, through geography, and yet with a powerful sense of immediacy. I feel certain that there are poems here . . . that will survive the way poems do, lodged like a tough plant in a crack in someone's heart.\" -from the foreword by Nan Cohen, author of \u003cem\u003eUnfinished City\u003c\/em\u003e\". . . Adler celebrates the small but profound joys that make any life a miracle in spite of suffering, 'black clouds fringed silver.'\"-Sally Ashton, author of \u003cem\u003eListening to Mars\u003c\/em\u003e\"Smooth seeming are the waters into which Irene Adler's words cleanly dive.\"-Cintia Santana, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Disordered Alphabet\u003c\/em\u003e\"Irene's small and sacred meditations reveal what the owls, birds, and beetles already know: life's 'wild velocity' lives in every 'quill, bone, and feather.'\"-Robin Ekiss, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Mansion of Happiness\u003c\/em\u003e\"Bone Flute is a wise testament to the pain and wonder of being human.\"-Peter Kline, author of \u003cem\u003eMirrorforms\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdler, Irene:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Irene Adler was a poet and English teacher in Palo Alto, California, where she was also a co-owner of the company that invented the Aerobie flying ring and the Aeropress coffee maker. By the time of her death in October 2023, she had written over 2,000 poems spanning 25 years.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNarciso Torres, Angela:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Angela Narciso Torres is the author of What Happens Is Neither (Four Way Books 2021), Blood Orange, winner of the 2013 Willow Books Literature Award for Poetry, and the chapbook, To the Bone (Sundress Publications 2020). Recent work appears or is forthcoming in POETRY, Missouri Review, Quarterly West, Cortland Review, and Poetry Northwest. A graduate of Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and Harvard Graduate School of Education, Angela has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Illinois Arts Council, and Ragdale Foundation. She received First Prize in the Yeats Poetry Prize (W.B. Yeats Society of New York). New City magazine named her one of Chicago's Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Manila, she currently resides in San Diego. She serves as a senior and reviews editor for RHINO ​Poetry.","brand":"Paloma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51325415522578,"sku":"9781734496529","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0d3709e9-82f2-4452-819a-c07f248e00bf.jpg?v=1748732651","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bone-flute-a-woman-speaks-9781734496529","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}