{"product_id":"to-the-wren-collected-new-poems-9781948579018","title":"To the Wren: Collected \u0026 New Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis massive collection houses Mead's life's work: seven books spanning twenty-seven years. Follow chronologically through decades and become captivated by heartfelt muses on loss, madness, danger, grief, isolation, and self-identity. Her poems explore spaces we often try to ignore and finds a comfortable middleground. Mead candidly and openly weaves together pain and joy until it meshes into glimpses of humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mead ... wrote clean, spare, often elegiac lines\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I remember her calm voice, her kindness, the incisive clarity of her comments. And now, on the desk beside me, lies \u003cem\u003eTo the Wren: Collected and New Poems: 1991-2019 (2019)\u003c\/em\u003e, and although more work may well emerge from other files or rescued papers, no new Jane Mead poems will ever be written. Our imperfect compensation is the current volume, a beautifully designed compendium of finely crafted poems whose world is mortal, suffering, yet vividly alive.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Ned Balbo for \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterary Matters\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJane Mead is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently World of Made and Unmade (Alice James, 2016) which was nominated for a National Book Award, as well as a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize and the Griffin Prize in Poetry. Her poems appear regularly in journals and anthologies, and she's the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, and a Lannan Foundation Completion Grant. For many years Poet-in-Residence at Wake Forest University, she manages her family's ranch in northern California. She has taught as a visiting writer at Washington University, Colby College and most recently, The University of Iowa.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Alice James Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51661406961938,"sku":"9781948579018","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4ded24ce-a2fe-469f-9cf8-9f9a8ee8d8da.jpg?v=1760442736","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/to-the-wren-collected-new-poems-9781948579018","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}