{"product_id":"holy-magic-9781936657568","title":"Holy Magic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Priscilla Long contains multitudes: scientific writer, art scholar, social activist, historical enthusiast, and well-published poet. If we are, as Muriel Rukeyser might compel us 'to learn the edges of darkness, ' then we must also experience illuminations both resplendent and routine: light beaming on glorious yellows and bawdy purples, spiritual blues and restful greens. Reading this book, I feel as if I'm being skillfully guided by someone who knows art and, perhaps more vividly, believes in how art makes our lives more resonant-sometimes more pleasantly aware, sometimes more susceptible to pain, but always more fully felt.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Tod Marshall, Washington State Poet Laureate, 2016-2018\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eHoly Magic\u003c\/em\u003e leans into the palette of our days and lays out the case, poem by poem, that the light vibrations that surround us are more than a scientific fact, they enter our bodies, trigger our imaginations, inform our moods, soothe our senses. In 'A Glass of Bitter Ale, ' we see the yellow tinge of a bruise, a raincoat glistening with rain and consider the tonalities of pee.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHues echo and inform each other in these poems, much in the way life experiences paint and retouch a person's life. Long transmutes life's magic from color to syllables for our delight in these varied and inventive poems. From the tragic, via the mundane, to the sublime, \u003cem\u003eHoly Magic\u003c\/em\u003e hums in technicolor the song of our existence.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Claudia Castro Luna, Washington State Poet Laureate, 2018-2021\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Moonpath Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50529070383378,"sku":"9781936657568","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_86f1d1e4-ec68-4231-800b-68d8cb8533f6.jpg?v=1731339554","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/holy-magic-9781936657568","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}