{"product_id":"beyond-heart-mountain-poems-national-poetry-series-9780140589207","title":"Beyond Heart Mountain: Poems (National Poetry Series)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBeyond Heart Mountain: Poems (National Poetry Series)\u003c\/strong\u003e by Roripaugh, Lee Ann. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780140589207.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLee Ann Roripaugh has been hailed by Ishmael Reed as \"one of the brightest talents\" writing poetry today. In this collection, she gives voice to the Japanese immigrants of the American West. In an unforgiving land of dirt and sagebrush, mothers labor to teach their children of the ocean, old men are displaced by geography and language, and the ghosts of Hiroshima clamor for peace. Lee Ann Roripaughs exquisitely crafted poems rise from the pages of Beyond Heart Mountain burdened with memory and pain, yet converting these to powerful art--art that is like \"the pattern of kimono found burned into a woman after Hiroshima . . . almost too beautiful, too horrible . . . to bear.\"\nRemember to raise\nbright orbs of rice-paper lanterns\nby the goldfish pond,\n\nso they can watch for me\nwith the yellow, unblinking gaze\nof nocturnal things . . .\n\n--from \"Peony Lantern\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45113611812917,"sku":"ByrdShop_0140589201","price":59.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780140589207_abecdf7f-e753-4cbd-836f-33d4f39a634e.jpg?v=1781102649","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/beyond-heart-mountain-poems-national-poetry-series-9780140589207","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}