{"product_id":"the-eclipses","title":"The Eclipses","description":"\u003cp\u003e\r\n\tWinner of the 3rd Anuual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tDavid Woo's \u003cem\u003eThe Eclipses\u003c\/em\u003e was selected by judge Michael S. Harper from over 700 manuscripts as winner of the 2003 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize contest. The artful remembrances of this first collection weave together memory, woe, mourning and, ultimately, transcendence in luminous detail. Ancestors, both literary and blood, are called forth as Woo struggles beyond his mother's death toward his own heart-intelligent truths. \"David Woo's first book of poems is eloquent, poignant, superbly wrought. Like the major poet Henri Cole, Woo has achieved a fresh, highly individual imaginative language in the American modes of Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane. The title poem and the beautiful transposition of Hofmannsthal in \"Ballad of Infinite Forgetfulness\" have an aura of permanence about them.\"--Harold Bloom \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\t\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tThe Eye\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tAfter-echo of sirens, a sliding-glass door, curtains\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tparting, the dark-green room with the white bed,\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tthe tiny spot of blood on the useless tube\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tin her throat. Eyes closed; we never closed them\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tfor her. “Sleep is sleep,” she’d scoff, which meant\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tdeath was not a dozing lamb. And yet I opened\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tone lid to expose a dead eye, empty and glassen\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tas the sweet beast’s gaze. I wanted one last look in,\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tbut it didn’t stay open. Something, not my touch,\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tclosed it for her again, something, mere inertia,\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\treflex of the orbicular oculi, something that defied\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tthe solace of metaphor, the succor of half-truths\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tshe taught us to resist, like the words I uttered\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tto console my father: “She wants to stay asleep.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t© BOA Editions, Ltd 2005\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tAvailable editions: \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPaperback ISBN: 1-929918-61-5\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPrice: $14.95\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPublishing Date: April 2005 \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8419108869,"sku":"1-929918-61-5","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/THE_ECLIPSES.jpg?v=1527683366","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/the-eclipses","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}