{"product_id":"star-lake-9781737277545","title":"Star Lake","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"In spare, riveting lines, Arda Collins' new poems enact a torque between immediacy and distance, between a visceral near and a resplendent far ... This is a book of wonders.\" --Arthur Sze\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArda Collins' second book of poems, \u003ci\u003eStar Lake\u003c\/i\u003e, is a deeply personal collection that explores the ways our notions of daily life touch the presence of the eternal. With memory as the backdrop of many poems, including the loss of the poet's parents and her experience growing up in a family of survivors from the Armenian genocide, Collins often overlays images of landscapes, weather and domestic interiors with a tone of melancholy--\"Who is the water and who is the light? \/ A shiver, a love, one you miss, and a wish.\" But \u003ci\u003eStar Lake\u003c\/i\u003e is also a collection of love poems: poems about the creation of new memories with family and tracing out imaginative shapes for their futures. In this Yale Younger Poets award winner's second collection, Collins returns with truly unforgettable poems that haunt and comfort.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArda Collins\u003c\/b\u003e (born 1974) is the author of \u003ci\u003eIt Is Daylight\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), which was awarded the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. Her work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Public Space\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eColorado Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ejubilat\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eelsewhere\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a recipient of the Sarton Award in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Song Cave","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50497030029586,"sku":"9781737277545","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_daf59b3e-8a03-454b-ad84-3fff042daab5.jpg?v=1730705710","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/star-lake-9781737277545","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}