{"product_id":"springing-isbn-9780375709876","title":"Springing","description":"From the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bird Catcher\u003c\/i\u003e, this life-spanning volume offers the delight of both discovery and re-discovery, as Ponsot tends the unruly garden of her mind with her customary care and passion. The book opens with a group of new poems, including “What Would You Like to Be When You Grow Up?”—a question that has kept Ponsot’s work vital for more than five decades. Throughout the selections from her four earlier books and a trove of previously unpublished work covering the years 1946 to 1971, she offers us a “lost haven in a springing world.” Sometimes sharp in her self-perception, but always listing toward pleasure and elegance, unafraid of grief and the passage of time, Ponsot continually refreshes her language and the spirited self from which it emerges.\"Marie Ponsot's poetic achievement is fiercely independent. A courageous eloquence is sustained throughout her work, as she mounts up what Emerson called 'the stairway of surprise.'\"\u003cbr\u003e  ---Harold BloomMarie Ponsot’s first book of poems was\u003ci\u003e True Minds\u003c\/i\u003e (1956); later books are \u003ci\u003eAdmit Impediment\u003c\/i\u003e (1981) and \u003ci\u003eThe Green Dark\u003c\/i\u003e (1988). She is a native New Yorker who has enjoyed teaching at Queens College, Beijing United University, the Poetry Center of the YMHA, New York University, and Columbia University. Among her awards are an NEA Creative Writing grant, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize, and the Shaughnessy Medal of the Modern Language Association. Ponsot’s most recent collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Bird Catcher\u003c\/i\u003e, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry in 1998.\u003cb\u003eSpringing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a skiff on a sunrisen lake we are watchers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSwimming aimlessly is luxury, just as walking\u003cbr\u003eLoudly up a shallow stream is.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs we lean over the deep well, we whisper.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFriends at hearths are drawn to the one warm air;\u003cbr\u003estranger meet on beaches drawn to the one wet sea.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat wd it be to be water, one body of water\u003cbr\u003e(what water is is another mystery). (We are\u003cbr\u003ewater divided.) It wd be a self without walls, \u003cbr\u003ewith surface tension, specific gravity, a local \u003cbr\u003eexchange between bedrock and cloud of falling and rising,\u003cbr\u003erising to fall, falling to rise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOld Jokes Appreciate\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUp the long stairs I run\u003cbr\u003estumbling, expectant.\u003cbr\u003eImpatience is hopelessly\u003cbr\u003edesperate.      Hope\u003cbr\u003etakes time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSort out the private from the personal.\u003cbr\u003eAdvance on losses at a decent pace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Aside from all that, Mrs. Lincoln,\u003cbr\u003ehow did you like the play?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOrigin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        The skull or shell\u003cbr\u003e        or wall of bone shaped\u003cbr\u003e        with its egg advantages\u003cbr\u003e        does not advertise\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethe gardens it contains,\u003cbr\u003ethe marriages, the furies,\u003cbr\u003eor the city it shelters\u003cbr\u003e(clangs, clouds, silences,\u003cbr\u003efound souls crowding,\u003cbr\u003ebig dank cans where things\u003cbr\u003eputrify)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eor the glade it hides\u003cbr\u003efor us to hide in, where\u003cbr\u003e—our lives eased open—\u003cbr\u003ewe drowse by the pond and wake\u003cbr\u003ebeside ourselves with thirst,\u003cbr\u003ewhere (dipping the cup we find)\u003cbr\u003ewe get of necessity\u003cbr\u003ea drink of some depth\u003cbr\u003efull of taste\u003cbr\u003eand original\u003cbr\u003eenergy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        The darling face,\u003cbr\u003e        the fragrant chevelure,\u003cbr\u003e        even the beautiful ears\u003cbr\u003e            on the shell do not\u003cbr\u003e        boast about the workplace inside.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        They prefer to appear to agree\u003cbr\u003e        they are just along for the ride.","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300825845989,"sku":"NP9780375709876","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375709876.jpg?v=1767737132","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/springing-isbn-9780375709876","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}