{"title":"Laurie Kutchins","description":"Laurie Kutchins’ latest book of poems, \u003cem\u003eSlope of the Child Everlasting\u003c\/em\u003e , was published by BOA in May 2007. Her debut poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Night Path\u003c\/em\u003e (BOA 1997), received the inaugural Isabella Gardner Award and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Her poems and prose essays have been widely published in anthologies and periodicals. Kutchins directs the interdisciplinary Creative Writing Program at James Madison University and regularly teaches as a faculty member at the Jackson Hole Writers Conference and the Taos Summer Writers Conference.","products":[{"product_id":"slope-of-the-child-everlasting","title":"Slope of the Child Everlasting","description":"\u003ch4\u003eSigned copies available in limited supply\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems in Laurie Kutchins' new collection sustain the lyric and imagistic sensibility of her last book, \u003cem\u003eThe Night Path\u003c\/em\u003e, but depart significantly from it in narrative, structure, voice, and topic. The poems in \u003cem\u003eSlope of the Child Everlasting\u003c\/em\u003e grew out of extended scrutiny of master poets--Matsuo Basho, Elizabeth Bishop, Garcia Lorca, Rainer Maria Rilke, Li Po, and others--as Kutchins searched for forms and voices to express post-September 11 rupture. The book's central images and voices are archetypes--who \"do their work\" largely from the soundings of the unconscious. Kutchins employs forms, including haiku, renga, sestina, and ghazal, to present a wide range of characters drawn from memory and her imagination.The mountains, the great divide, the river, the owl and the blind man all visit the Underworld. From their journey to this fertile mythic darkness, these characters claim their futures through visions of the past--the urge of the bloodroot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e © BOA Editions, Ltd. 2007\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":8418953157,"sku":"9781929918911","price":15.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (Signed)","offer_id":38547078985,"sku":"9781929918911","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/SLOPE_OF_THE_CHILD.jpg?v=1527683348"},{"product_id":"the-night-path-1","title":"The Night Path","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner, The Isabella Gardner Poetry Award For 1997\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems of Laurie Kutchins take us down \u003cem\u003eThe Night Path\u003c\/em\u003e, a trail that is not so much a place as it is a way of being acutely present in the moment. Patient and receptive, Kutchins crafts poems that see far into, and subsequently ennoble, all things corporeal, all things evanescent. Kutchins writes of pregnancy, birth and the complicated relationship between mother and child like no other contemporary American poet. In language both playful and sober, she mixes lyrics with narratives and dramatic monologues. In the poem, \"Milk,\" the liquid itself speaks: \"Given your birth, I am the glue of the cosmos. Love, I am\/what you, puts you to sleep, keeps you going.\/I am fluid matter, essential as swallows\/of air...So charged is my love, when I hear you cry I surge toward you like an electrical current.\" \" A new vista opens in the poems Laurie Kutchins writes about pregnancy and birth. The are concrete and lyrical, factual and wildly speculative.\" Maxine Kumin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew Moon, End of October\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eMorning met the grass in whiteness\u003cbr\u003ewhite sparks, chalk and\u003cbr\u003ebone. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003enoon was a gristle of crickets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003edusk was black leaf smoke, quick, then dark,\u003cbr\u003estar-still, darker\u003cbr\u003estill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd 1997\u003cbr\u003eCloth - Signed Edition ISBN: 1-880238-48-9\u003cbr\u003ePrice: $35.00 \u003cbr\u003ePublishing Date: January 1997\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":9802441349,"sku":"1-880238-48-9a","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cloth","offer_id":8419972037,"sku":"1-880238-48-9b","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Hardcover (Signed)","offer_id":12467876069457,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/THE_NIGHT_PATH.jpg?v=1527683597"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/kutchins_4390fca1-d396-4430-b5e9-da5904dbec93.jpg?v=1453487868","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/laurie-kutchins.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}