{"product_id":"day-of-the-child-a-poem-paperback","title":"Day of the Child: A Poem - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eArra Lynn Ross\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Arra Lynn Ross, a tender, generous, and generative extended poem centered on the experience of parenthood.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What is learned? I'll return for my son; \/ at school, at three thirty-eight, bells will ring \u0026amp; run \/ days over years.\" Using unpredictable syllabics, rhyme, and syntax, \u003cem\u003eDay of the Child \u003c\/em\u003ecaptures the sensation of altered time that accompanies a child's growth. Seasons come and go. A schoolboy becomes a dreaming infant becomes a five-year-old exploring metaphor for the first time becomes an ultrasound image, \"a frieze on screen.\" A mother cycles through her own often dissonant identities: \"soother, watcher, blame-taker.\" And both mother and child assume another, significant role: artistic collaborators.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor\u003cem\u003e Day of the Child \u003c\/em\u003eis a poem co-created by child and mother, offering a space in which each's stories, thoughts, words--\"unbound \/ by Time \u0026amp; time's delineations\"--tangle together. In which apartness--\"Oh indivisible divisible,\" the presence of another heart beating inside the mother's own body--is continually negotiated. And in which the mother considers her place as intermediary between the child and the world: her protection, her complicity, her joy. Its octave pairs ebb and flow, expand and contract, producing a portrait of raising another human as refracted as it is circular, just as a river \"breaks into many suns, the sun.\" For, as the child asserts, \"love is a circl[e] round \/ as a Ball.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChallenging the notion that parenthood is not itself a poetic endeavor, \u003cem\u003eDay of the Child \u003c\/em\u003emakes of childrearing \"a refrain I reframed each day with new words.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArra Lynn Ross\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eDay of the Child\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSeedlip and Sweet Apple\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a poet, essayist, and puppet worker whose work has appeared in \u003ci\u003ePassages North\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFourth Genre\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRiver Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDenver Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry Northwest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBirmingham Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAntioch Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eIowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Michigan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.3 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 09, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45610807164972,"sku":"9781571315373","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/smartsupplydeals.com\/products\/day-of-the-child-a-poem-paperback","provider":"Smart supply deals","version":"1.0","type":"link"}