{"product_id":"spill-some-new-brightness-poems-9781936671809","title":"Spill Some New Brightness: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrancine Marie Tolf's poetry is like the leaves she describes in one of her poems: \"green fire in morning sun.\" \u003cem\u003eSpill Some New Brightness\u003c\/em\u003e opens in a place where grief and gratitude walk hand in hand: \"Sometimes something wonderful occurs, \/ a sister you thought exotic but brittle \/ becomes your best friend, maybe through \/ mysterious and troubling circumstances. Maybe \/ she has a breakdown. Speaks with demons. \/ Walks through bright and terrible fields.\" (\"Sometimes\").\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this spiritual gathering of pain, love, beauty, and injustices, devastating moments surface: \"I thought of that immigrant woman clutching her child \/ as ice-black water rose, the merciless moment \/ she had to breathe ocean into her lungs \/ and I said out loud, Where were You? \/ How could You let this happen? \/ No answer except diamonds sparkling on lake water.\" (\"Hidden Beach\").\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe spend time with women, sisters, mothers, people on the bus and in the grocery store, assisted living patients, children, trees, tiger lilies, \"mallard ducks swimming in melted snow puddles.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTolf gives us the beauty of ordinary but dazzling moments: \"Blinding white, the sudden wings beat \/ in front of my windshield, as if \/ the gull had dropped from a horizon \/ of sapphire sea and chalk-bright cliff \/ instead of this dreary March sky \/ hanging low over a parking lot edged \/ with a Dollar Tree, a Taco Bell, \/ black-crusted snow.\" (\"Transfiguration in North Minneapolis\").\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompassion for animals, strength from nature, a community of gratitude to help heal and experience a whole life ... these are the gifts Tolf offers to readers in her latest collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pinyon Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50930068029714,"sku":"9781936671809","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2f5d11c3-e58b-419b-8478-4635b1ac57b8.jpg?v=1739061897","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/spill-some-new-brightness-poems-9781936671809","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}