{"title":"Deena Linett","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeena Linett is the author of three collections of poetry including \u003cem\u003eRare Earths\u003c\/em\u003e (BOA, 2001), and \u003cem\u003eWoman Crossing a Field\u003c\/em\u003e (BOA, 2006). While earning her doctorate at Rutgers University, Linett had the first of two fellowships to Yaddo, where she completed her first novel, On Common Ground, co-winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award Series in the Novel. Her newest collection of poems The Gate at Visby was published by Tiger Bark Press in 2012. For more information about Deena Linett, visit \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.deenalinett.org\/\"\u003ewww.deenalinett.org\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"rare-earths","title":"Rare Earths","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRare Earths\u003c\/em\u003e marks the poetry debut of prize-winning novelist Deena Linett. In narrative and lyric poems, the collection displays the range of the poet’s art as she considers time and love, the movement of mind and—ultimately—loss. Book I of \u003cem\u003eRare Earths\u003c\/em\u003e is an intriguing and suspenseful story in verse. Mairi MacIntyre, a young architect, travels to the desolate North Atlantic island of St. Kilda, 110 miles off the coast of Scotland. In journal excerpts and letters to her husband and mother—discovered after Mairi’s death—she comes to terms with her own longings and inner life and her ties to the women who once inhabited the island. Complementing Book I—and adding to the many mysteries in \u003cem\u003eRare Earths\u003c\/em\u003e—are the lyric poems in Book II by “the American,” an anonymous poet who was present on the dig with Mairi McIntyre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEventually They Come Ashore\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethe living and the dead\u003cbr\u003ewhether you wait for them or not. \u003cbr\u003eThere are so many more\u003cbr\u003eof the dead, and the living \u003cbr\u003edrown on stony ground in grief \u003cbr\u003eand anger, and the sea \u003cbr\u003edoes not care. We care\u003cbr\u003efor it so deeply, need it\u003cbr\u003eso we cannot comprehend \u003cbr\u003eits treachery.  We think\u003cbr\u003eit must be part of Mind\u003cbr\u003eand would not so mistreat us \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ebut it closes its blue eyes, \u003cbr\u003ea shunning, so defeats us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd 2001 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAvailable editions: \u003cbr\u003e--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003cbr\u003ePrice: $12.50 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8418874693,"sku":"1-880238-99-3","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/RARE_EARTHS.jpg?v=1527683328"},{"product_id":"woman-crossing-a-field","title":"Woman Crossing a Field","description":"\u003cp\u003e\r\n\tIn \u003cem\u003eWoman Crossing a Field\u003c\/em\u003e, Deena Linett uses language as a dancer uses limbs, each gesture deliberate and expressive. Her poems gently unsheath the choices we make, exposing their consequences that linger as love, grief, hope, or wonder. Often set within the landscape, within grass shaped by wind and stone grooved by rain, Linett's poems allow these small decisions the same relentless power as the forces of nature. The centerpiece of Woman Crossing a Field is a triptych, \"Altarpiece,\" a suite of fifteen poems, which function as landscape paintings do, suggesting the flow of life as well as this time and this place. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cstrong\u003e3 Men: Portraits Without the Human Figure\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tHotel-casino: lights flash, crowds tread\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tpatterned carpets hoping for a turn \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tin fortune. Despite the ardent wishes\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tof the women you have left you are not dead.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tYou’re good at lively passing things\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tthat happen here: at restaurants, in bed,\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tat tables tossing dice and cards. That smudge \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tat bottom right stands in for me, and you plunge\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tbreathless into chance as into women, risk\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tlike drink obliterating everything. \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t~\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tStudio: smells of linseed oil and turpentine. Brushes, \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tpalette knives, mixing-sticks; bottles, jars, tubes. Paint \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tin daubs and gobs and smears and dots and slashes. \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tYou left the window open and everything stained. \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t~\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tGreenhouse: Beneath little panes pocked \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tby time and dotted with mold and lichen, rot, \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\ta riot of tropical effulgence, small framed portion\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tof the endlessness. Spiky plants blossom\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tlike ideas; light glances off the glass and gleams\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\ton the permanent hunger, steams. Everything\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tblooms or is green. 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