{"product_id":"still-life-with-oysters-and-lemon-isbn-9780807066096","title":"Still Life with Oysters and Lemon","description":"Mark Doty's prose has been hailed as \"tempered and tough, sorrowing and serene\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) and \"achingly beautiful\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e). In \u003ci\u003eStill Life with Oysters and Lemon\u003c\/i\u003e he offers a stunning exploration of our attachment to ordinary things-how we invest objects with human store, and why.Books like this, that address the sources of creation and the sources of our humanness, come along once in a decade. -Susan Salter Reynolds, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This small book is as wise, sensitive, intense, and affecting as anything I have read in recent years.\" -Doris Grumbach, author of \u003ci\u003eFifty Days of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A gem.\" \u003ci\u003e-Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mark Doty's prose is insistently exploratory, yet every aside, every detour, turns into pertinence, and it all seems effortless, as though the author were wondering, and marveling, aloud.\" -Bernard Cooper, author of \u003ci\u003eTruth Serum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A dazzling accomplishment, its radiance bred of lucid attention and acute insight. The subject is the profoundly personal act of perception translated into description. Doty succeeds in rendering this most contemplative of arts-the still life-into a riveting drama.\" -Patricia Hampl, author of \u003ci\u003eI Could Tell You Stories\u003c\/i\u003eMark Doty is the author of six books of poems and two memoirs, \u003ci\u003eHeaven's Coast\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFirebird.\u003c\/i\u003e A Guggenheim, Ingram-Merrill, and Whiting Fellow, he has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN\/Martha Albrand Prize for Nonfiction. He teaches at the University of Houston, and divides his time between Houston and Provincetown, Massachusetts.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299882914021,"sku":"NP9780807066096","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807066096.jpg?v=1767737331","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/still-life-with-oysters-and-lemon-isbn-9780807066096","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}