{"title":"Miriam Sagan","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"thanks-for-stopping-by","title":"Thanks for Stopping By","description":"\u003cp\u003eMiriam Sagan brings the strength of her curiosity, a refreshing coldness, and an expansive awareness of history - personal, ancient, and scientific - to her encounter with her own mortality in this moving collection, \u003cem\u003eThanks for Stopping By\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter receiving a frightening diagnosis, Sagan tracks the shifting moods of a life lived near death: its pleasures and amusements, irritations and confusions. Here love, family, memory, travel, and the unfathomable quotidian unfold alongside her contemplation of dying. These beautiful and often funny poems send reports from the border of life and death, a border we're all traveling towards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMiriam Sagan\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of over thirty books of poetry, fiction, and memoir. She works with text and sculptural installation as part of creative duo Maternal Mitochondria (with Isabel Winson-Sagan). Her poetry has been set to music for the Santa Fe Women's Chorus, incised on stoneware for haiku pathways, and projected as video inside abandoned buildings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blue Edge Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48319775375677,"sku":"9798985435733","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/9798985435733ita.jpg?v=1712689627"},{"product_id":"fables-from-the-flower-world","title":"Fables from the Flower World","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaternal Mitochondria—a mother\/daughter creative duo—creating stories in poetry, fiction, and images. Miriam Sagan is a writer and Isabel Winson-Sagan a visual artist. \"Flowers from The Fable World\" explores the intricacies of the mother\/daughter relationship. A woman who desperately wants a child is given one by a mysterious stranger in a parking lot in the tropics. The child grows up, but how? Will the story be tragic, heroic, or ordinary enough? Botany and flora of all kinds appear in an accompanying suite of imagery, which tells each version in a different way. The imagery was created using suminagashi (Japanese style marbling) and ready-made images of stamp art. This theme of fluid mingling with fixed is also expressed in the method of storytelling. There are \"real\" life issues: teen pregnancy, school violence, the suffering of immigrants, the border and magical realism: a goddess disguised as a homeless woman, shape-changing, folk healing, and more. This book was created out of Miriam and Isabel's own shared imaginative concerns and extends itself towards the reader.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Miriam's Well","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":67644948119869,"sku":"9781948192552","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/9781948192552ita.jpg?v=1791391477"}],"url":"https:\/\/itascabooks.com\/collections\/miriam-sagan.oembed","provider":"Itasca Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}