{"product_id":"go-figure-9781961897045","title":"Go Figure","description":"\u003cp\u003e In\u003ci\u003e Go Figure\u003c\/i\u003e, Carol Moldaw demonstrates an incandescent mastery of figuration in its many forms. As the title suggests, these poems invite readers to draw their own conclusions. Observing, inquiring, and delving, Moldaw brings the intertwined strands of life and art to light at their most intimate. A wife-muse who interrogates the role, a mother hard-pressed by motherhood, a daughter whose own mother's decline causes her to probe their connection, and an artist with an exacting eye and ear who contemplates the creative mysteries, Moldaw is driven to understand and articulate the self in all its manifestations. Like a skater cutting first lines in ice, Moldaw displays lyric immediacy and lyric expanse in her poems with an unswerving command. Complex and inviting, with deft wit, the poems engage public and private life and voice a necessary and resounding affirmation of the feminine and of language emerging through silence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Carol Moldaw is the author of six previous books of poetry: \u003ci\u003eBeauty Refracted\u003c\/i\u003e (Four Way Books, 2018); \u003ci\u003eSo Late, So Soon: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (Etruscan Press, 2010); \u003ci\u003eThe Lightning Field\u003c\/i\u003e, 2002 winner of the FIELD Poetry Prize (Oberlin College Press, 2003); \u003ci\u003eThrough the Window\u003c\/i\u003e (La Alameda Press, 2001), also translated into Turkish and published in a bilingual edition in Istanbul (Iyi Seyler, 1998); \u003ci\u003eChalkmarks on Stone\u003c\/i\u003e (La Alameda Press, 1998); and \u003ci\u003eTaken from the River\u003c\/i\u003e (Alef Books, 1993). She is also the author of a novella, \u003ci\u003eThe Widening\u003c\/i\u003e (Etruscan Press, 2008). She has received a Merwin Conservancy Artist Residency, a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared widely in such journals as \u003ci\u003eThe American Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Georgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Yale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as many anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eWestern Wind: An Introduction to Poetry and Contemporary Literary Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e. Along with Turkish, her poems have been translated into Chinese, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. A volume of her selected poems, translated into Chinese, is forthcoming from Guangxi Normal University Press in Beijing in 2025. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Four Way Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50891816861970,"sku":"9781961897045","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ab3daf87-61c9-4eb2-b0bf-053bd05fd22d.jpg?v=1738172056","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/go-figure-9781961897045","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}