{"product_id":"frances-of-the-wider-fields-9781734786965","title":"Frances of the Wider Fields","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrances of the Wider Field is about mothers, daughters, time, mortality-the loss of memory and meaning. Van Prooyen's poems have clarity and ferocity, a wild imaginative grace that captures the joy and strangeness of our most intimate and familiar experiences. Frances appears part god, part curious child, part the small solitary voice inside. Van Prooyen asks \" Is a sigh a word? Is a body a word? \/ Is a tongue the beginning?\" She tells us \"Memory cannot undo the future. Frances, if I said, \/tonight I thank the seven sisters, it's really \/ the blue dust of God between them. Or you.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVan Prooyen, Laura:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Laura Van Prooyen is author of two earlier collections of poems, Our House Was on Fire and Inkblot and Altar. She is also co-author with Gretchen Bernabei of Text Structures from Poetry, a book of writing lessons for educators. A graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, Van Prooyen serves as Managing Editor of The Cortland Review and lives in San Antonio, TX.","brand":"Lily Poetry Review","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50380051513618,"sku":"9781734786965","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e7477efe-b407-4805-831c-ed863795b8c9.jpg?v=1728674011","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/frances-of-the-wider-fields-9781734786965","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}