{"product_id":"9781570033230","title":"From the Bones Out : Poems by Marisa De Los Santos","description":"\u003cp\u003eMy lover tells me I am like this place.\/I tell him what I miss: the slap of leaves\/on skin and air that's like a damp embrace. The poems of this debut have a Cinderella-like innocence, transforming ugliness into beauty and waving the wand of well-crafted metaphor over all they encounter. The horrific suicide of a grandfather, a mother's cancer, the mourning for a stillborn child, the potential foreclosure of a neighbor's farm are all recounted with a refined clarity. Yet through it all, de los Santos manages to frame life's traumas with a voice that can seem borrowed from the Stage Manager in Our Town: Some years\/were fair, but most were bad.\/The taxes, worse than weevil, tried\/to take each dime she had. However, there are also poems, such as Io's Gift, that evoke, through their subtlety and sensuality, the pleasures of the ever-changing consciousness of the female body: I learned myself, bit\/ by bit, or maybe I\/ should say I dawned\/ upon myself, a slow dawning. There are also glamorous poems, including Supermodel, and Perfect Dress, in which the poet indulges in herself as an object of perfect beauty: Someone will murmur, \/'She is sublime, '\/will be precisely right, and I will step, \/with incandescent shoulders, \/ into my perfect evening. In its worked simplicity, this is a first book that offers a formula of hope and clarity when confronting life's trials and tribulations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of South Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48741808472299,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":32.94,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781570033230-1.jpg?v=1781690479","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9781570033230","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}