{"product_id":"persephone-heads-for-the-gate-9781878851260","title":"Persephone Heads for the Gate","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe tender attention with which Merrill Douglas holds the things of this world is breathtaking: \"small brown birds\/going \u003ci\u003echink, chink\u003c\/i\u003e like coins in the ivy,\" \"sun licks billows\/of garlicky lamb smoke\/that roll above street fair earrings,\" a toasted marshmallow that \"flakes on my tongue with the taste of charred news,\" or \"the sound my grown body releases\/now when I unfasten my bra.\" It is a deep and moving pleasure to spend time in the world of these poems, poems that suggest, no, \u003ci\u003einsist\u003c\/i\u003e that to live is to \"immerse your face in mud and then arise...,\" to \"pinch together thumb and index finger to tweeze\/unending filaments of joy from the air....\" --\u003cb\u003eMarilyn McCabe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDouglas, Merrill:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMerrill Oliver Douglas\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the poetry chapbook \u003ci\u003eParking Meters into Mermaids\u003c\/i\u003e (Finishing Line Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eBaltimore Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBarrow Street\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTar River Poetry, Stone Canoe, Little Patuxent Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhale Road Review\u003c\/i\u003e, among other journals. Raised in New York City, she holds a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and an M.A. in English from Binghamton University. She lives near Binghamton, New York, where she runs a freelance writing business.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Silverfish Review Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51863700799762,"sku":"9781878851260","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cad3f32e-6cf6-40c9-963e-23ef843866e4.jpg?v=1767784738","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/persephone-heads-for-the-gate-9781878851260","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}