{"product_id":"bramble-9781646629879","title":"Bramble","description":"These poems resonate with poetry's essential gift-the thrill of being. The poet's gratitude is exemplary yet at times understandably rueful: so much is given, so little to hold onto. Nonetheless, an appreciation founded in ardor wins the day. We, the readers, are all the better for meeting these wise, vibrant poems.\u003cstrong\u003e-Baron Wormser, \u003c\/strong\u003e  Maine Poet Laureate 2000-2006, Author of\u003cem\u003e Songs from a Voice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe tender clarity of Brooke James's snapshot-like poems is so precisely rendered, so crisp and exquisitely honest, it reminds us that any at moment, whether we are considering a child's hand print on a glass door or a collection of laundry on a clothes line, by paying attention to the simplest and most un-remarkable aspects of experience, we can be invited to participate in the quiet and thrilling mysteries and paradoxes that are threaded through our lives.\u003cstrong\u003e-Michael Collier\u003c\/strong\u003e,  Director Emeritus, Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Finishing Line Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50900809613586,"sku":"9781646629879","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4fa52564-1de3-49bd-8453-68ea681bd5c6.jpg?v=1738397858","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bramble-9781646629879","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}