{"product_id":"trying-to-speak-9780873388474","title":"Trying to Speak","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of the 2004 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The voice [in Anele Rubin's poems] is so new, and yet the movement is so artful, subtle, and modest--there are never any theatrics in these poems. They never yowl, Pay attention to me!... Rubin is on the same wave-length with Tomas Tranströmer and Yehuda Amichai.... The emotional range of her poems, like theirs, is enormous, as is the range of locales, many of which I know well, and yet in \u003cem\u003eTrying to Speak\u003c\/em\u003e, they appear with a clarity that had eluded me.\"\u003cem\u003e-- Philip Levine, Judge\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Anele Rubin's poems illuminate an astonishing range of emotional experience. Visual, tactile, simple and complex, her words lure you from poem to poem--sometimes exquisite, sometimes austere, always original.\"\u003cem\u003e-- Ruth Stone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is a powerful and beautifully lyrical book of great wisdom, whose theme is emotional resurrection.\"\u003cem\u003e-- Toi Derricotte\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rubin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52189047685403,"sku":"9780873388474","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/YnNIcTVybzR5bG9EelluQ1FxdStBZz09.jpg?v=1779980092","url":"https:\/\/sapphicsociety.com\/products\/trying-to-speak-9780873388474","provider":"Sapphic Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}