{"title":"Rebecca Aronson","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"ghost-child-of-the-atalanta-bloom-1","title":"Ghost Child of the Atalanta Bloom","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eGhost Child of the Atalanta Bloom \u003c\/em\u003eRebecca Aronson combines myth and memory history and landscape dream and the everyday in arresting painterly poems that sweep the reader beyond the ordinary. With a practiced hand Aronson crafts shapely poems in which no word is wasted. In fact nothing is wasted and Aronson's poems redeem all manner of powerful images and experiences from time's grasp forming a new mythology out of the raw material of her life and imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRebecca Aronson\u003c\/strong\u003e's first book \u003cem\u003eCreature Creature\u003c\/em\u003e won the Main-Traveled Press poetry contest and was published in 2007. She also received the 2010 Strousse Award from \u003cem\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/em\u003e. Aronson's poems have appeared in \u003cem\u003eTin House\u003c\/em\u003e the \u003cem\u003eGeorgia Review\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eCream City Review\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eMas Tequila Review\u003c\/em\u003e the \u003cem\u003eParis-American\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eQuarterly West\u003c\/em\u003e among other places. She lives in New Mexico where she teaches writing facilitates a community writing group and coordinates a visiting writers series for Central New Mexico Community College.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Rife with hunger and volatility these poems rooted in the dry heat of the American Southwest circle an unnamed longing and seek release. [. . .] Through the heat of fire or the joy and fear of new motherhood [Aronson] follows that trail of want searching endlessly for 'a reason and a reason and a reason for joy.'\" -\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBooklist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Her lines storm out of the gate and maintain a thrilling cogent sense of direction as if Rebecca Aronson has only recently been given permission to communicate and she is eager to share.\" - \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Explosive turbulent haunting magnetic Rebecca Aronson's \u003cem\u003eGhost Child of the Atalanta Bloom \u003c\/em\u003ebegins with a girl who sets a field on fire an apt metaphor for poems that are themselves fiery. Mortality and death undergird Aronson's fantastical visions where a child becomes a seagull a woman turns tarantula and a house threatens to fill with blood. Fierce vulnerability and brutality excite the perceptions of the ill and the grief-stricken the child and the new mother who claims: \u0026amp;lsquoWith teeth I guard the home and with breathing.' Details are vaulted to life wild with electricity-from a canoe to a pearl to a bobbin \u0026amp;lsquoeven the grass \/ could be an engine of desire.' An acute and visceral brightness-an aliveness-reaches under the eyelids floating the reader across startling landscapes and dreamscapes from Pompeii to Jersey City. I could stare all day at the riot of gasping colors enthralled by Aronson's poems and her \u0026amp;lsquoRavenous god of little things.'\"- \u003cstrong\u003eHadara Bar-Nadav\u003c\/strong\u003e judge of the 2016 Orison Poetry Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The poems in Rebecca Aronson's collection achieve a longed-for but near-impossible mark-they change the very shape and length of the momentary to make time last longer. How does the present each held breath bloom and stretch and become an ever-ness a sustained cherishing? This poet infuses more life into a line than almost any of her peers. This book belongs in a canon with the works of Brigit Pegeen Kelly Naomi Shihab Nye James Richardson and Rita Dove-we have always needed new paths into that deep attentive porous and mindful way of being that only poetry can offer. Aronson's is a new route into our oldest and most familiar paradoxes and mysteries those of love beauty connection (im)materiality and consciousness. Nobody but Rebecca Aronson turns a reality inside out just by the way she looks at it the way she listens to reveal ever deeper colors and music than we could have suspected were all around us and in us.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eBrenda Shaughnessy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321580757142,"sku":"9780996439701","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_3fef36c0-c2b1-468b-a8c6-29be68339810.jpg?v=1642157557"},{"product_id":"anchor","title":"Anchor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of The 2024 Philosophical Society of Texas Poetry Award\u003cbr\u003eWinner of The 2024 Eric Hoffer Award for Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThreaded with epistolary poems to Gravity—envisioned as a capricious god as the author's father began to fall frequently at the outset of a progressive illness—Aronson's latest poems contemplate and address what anchors us, literally and figuratively. The poems in Aronson's third collection excavate grief during the process of losing parents, one to physical illness and the other to dementia. But even in the midst of grief, Aronson never loses sight of the larger world, ever present in all its danger and beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRebecca Aronson\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eGhost Child of the Atalanta Bloom\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of The 2016 Orison Poetry Prize and The 2019 Margaret Randall Book Award from The Albuquerque Museum Foundation, as well as a finalist for The 2017 Arizona\/New Mexico Book Award. Her first collection, \u003cem\u003eCreature, Creature\u003c\/em\u003e, won The Main-Traveled Roads Poetry Prize (2007). She has received The \u003cem\u003ePrairie Schoone\u003c\/em\u003er Strousse Award, The Loft's Speakeasy Poetry Prize, and The Tennessee Williams Scholarship to The Sewanee Writers' Conference. Aronson is co-founder and host of Bad Mouth, a series of words and music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Rebecca Aronson's incredible new collection is full of verve and a syntax of ecstatic vocabulary. Whether it's through abecedarians or epistles to gravity, Aronson's poems carry the weight of a life, its pressures, its miraculous brevity. \u003cem\u003eAnchor\u003c\/em\u003e is a balm against grief. These poems face off against loss with 'Technicolor blooming and bird riot,' and every line hums with urgency.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eTraci Brimhall\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"We know from Newton, who named it, that gravity is the force of attraction drawing bodies together. Etymologically, it shares itself with gravid and grave—beginning and end. In \u003cem\u003eAnchor\u003c\/em\u003e, Aronson has given us both the metaphor and the ballast: the harbor from which we venture into our lives on Earth, and the commonality of death that returns us to the earth. With a languid, meditative syntax reminiscent of Virginia Woolf—and an eye for detail equally sensuous and lethal—Aronson has achieved an intimate and artful collection about loss and the inevitable cycles of ebb and flow experienced by every life.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eKathy Fagan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In her splendid third collection of poems, Rebecca Aronson writes of the degeneration and death of her parents. The darknesses of the subjects, however, are magicked into beautiful balance in a stunning juggling act which holds opposite forces spinning and gleaming in the empty air—gravity and flight, body and spirit, absence and presence, love and grief. Aronson devises exquisite metaphors on every page to illustrate the tensions it is our human lot to suffer. Gravity itself is a wonderfully personified character in these pages—it loves the dying father, is jealous of other forces that vie for his body, is a class bully here, an ally of the moon there. The poems here are graceful, wildly gorgeous, enriched by Aronson's vivid animation of earthly and heavenly forces—wind, sand, fire, air, sky, stars. The relative slimness of this volume belies the genuine gravity of the enormous beauties, wonders, and surprises within it.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eSidney Wade\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42035018268822,"sku":"9781949039351","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/9781949039351ita.jpg?v=1660855168"}],"url":"https:\/\/itascabooks.com\/collections\/rebecca-aronson.oembed","provider":"Itasca Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}