{"title":"Wendy Mnookin","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eWendy Mnookin is the author of five collections of poetry, including three from Boa Editions: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Moon Makes Its Own Plea \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(2008), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat He Took\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2002) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTo Get Here\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1999). She has received \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ea Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and her books have won awards from the New England Poetry Club and the Massachusetts Center for the Book. She has taught poetry at Boston College, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEmerson College, and Grub Street, as well as at varous workshop venues around the country. She currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and runs the Poetry Roundtable at the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement.  For more information about Wendy Mnookin, visit \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wendymnookin.com\/\" data-linkindex=\"0\" title=\"http:\/\/www.wendymnookin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ewww.wendymnookin.com\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"to-get-here","title":"To Get Here","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eTo Get Here\u003c\/em\u003e, Wendy Mnookin takes us into a family transformed by the unexpected–a child in danger. Using shifting chronology and different voices, Mnookin explores the family's efforts to understand the changing reality of their lives. As the child's distress threatens to engulf them, we come to understand more about our own struggles to save those we love and, finally, to love even those we cannot save.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSuperman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe chair is hard.\u003cbr\u003eThe afternoon sun leaves no cool corner.\u003cbr\u003eAnd that jittery pecking of birds--\u003cbr\u003ehis mother's fingers, plucking at threads. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe stares through her fingers,\u003cbr\u003ethrough the spooling thread, out \u003cbr\u003epast the barn, the lowing spotted cow, \u003cbr\u003epast corn tassels flaunting pollen, \u003cbr\u003eover molecules, their tumbling polka-- \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewho wants to look \u003cbr\u003elike his mother sews his clothes,\u003cbr\u003ewants to feel pinned \u003cbr\u003eand gathered and snipped and sewed, \u003cbr\u003etucked and buttoned inside?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boa Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8418158853,"sku":"1-880238-73-x","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/TO_GET_HERE.jpg?v=1527683767"},{"product_id":"the-moon-makes-its-own-plea-poems","title":"The Moon Makes Its Own Plea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Moon Makes Its Own Plea\u003c\/em\u003e is a departure from Mnookin’s previous books, \u003cem\u003eWhat He Took\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTo Get Here\u003c\/em\u003e. Rather than considering a single experience that transforms her perception of her world, in her new book Mnookin explores the idea of self and how that self is strengthened and abraded by relationships. Although the book is anchored in everyday life, the narrative is fluid, making greater use of associative thinking. The poems in this book coalesce around the condition of mortality—not a specific death, although these also occur in the poems, but the state of being mortal. 'I hold the grit of my life in my hands,' the author says in the title poem. What to do with that life is the question these poems probe with bravado and defiance, fear and anger, humor and hope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003cem\u003eTHE MOON MAKES ITS OWN PLEA\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"For holidays in interesting times, give the gift of a warm and joyful escape. . . . poetry lovers have a deluxe assortment to choose from [including] Wendy Mnookin's \u003cem\u003eThe Moon Makes Its Own Plea\u003c\/em\u003e, filled with heart-snagging reflections on both family and solitariness.\" \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—Vogue Magazine, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The Best Books to Give Everyone on Your List This Year,\" 2016\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Moon Makes Its Own Plea\u003c\/em\u003e gives us poems beautifully nuanced, reflecting life in all its ironies and mysteries, poignantly aware of the brevity that makes each moment vivid and crucial.\" \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003ePoetry Daily\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Wendy Mnookin's poems arise both from the small joys and the larger reckonings of domestic existence. The poems understand how delight must commingle with heartbreak, and they proceed with a terseness and associative vigor that always makes the familiar strange—not for the sake of the easy tour de force, but as a means to arrive at the clarity and hard-won wisdom which these poems strive for and beautifully attain.\" \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Wojahn\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8418196485,"sku":"9781934414149","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/THE_MOON_MAKES_ITS.jpg?v=1527683597"},{"product_id":"what-he-took","title":"What He Took","description":"\u003cp\u003e\r\n\tWinner, The 2002 Sheila Margaret Motton Prize from the New England Poetry Club\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tIn \u003cem\u003eWhat He Took\u003c\/em\u003e, Wendy Mnookin explores early loss. Trying to understand the death of her father when she was two, Mnookin considers memory and imagination and how they merge in our efforts to salvage the past. The poems move from the time of his death to the years of growing up with a new father, making her way into adulthood, marrying and starting her own family, always with a longing for the absent father and a sense of the nearness of loss. “What He Took is an elegy to the father Wendy Mnookin lost to an automobile accident when she was a child. It is also a book of passage, of her journey from the day, stranded in a field, to an adulthood informed by that day. . . . This collection, this whole, is rich in unpretentious, lyrical poems.” —Lola Haskins \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\t\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tThis Is It \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tHe needs to think of what's important.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tAnd so my father thinks of plums,\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tthe small hard plums he found by the road\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tthe summer he was seventeen\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tand biked through France.  The first bite\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\twas tart, almost bitter— \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\the sucked in his cheeks with surprise—\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tbut somehow the next was sweeter.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t© BOA Editions, Ltd 2002\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tAvailable editions:\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPaperback ISBN: 1-929918-19-4\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPrice: $13.95 \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPublishing Date: May 2002\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8419355781,"sku":"1929918194","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/WHAT_HE_TOOK.jpg?v=1527683782"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/mnookin.jpg?v=1454353534","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/wendy-mnookin.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}