{"product_id":"9781933880747-without-my-asking-poetry","title":"Without My Asking – Poetry","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn poems that range from New England to the Southwest, Without My Asking, takes its cue from Psalms 90's petition-\"teach us to number our days.\"  That biblical sense of limits-of what we can know and not know-and, ultimately, the mystery of before and after that encloses our existence is the center around which these poems turn, both seasonally and from day-to-day.  In poems that attend to the events of our lives-from the deaths of parents to hummingbirds at a bird feeder-these poems work to utter \"Yes\" to all that happens, that \"peculiar affirmative\" that recognizes, as Elizabeth Bishop says, \"Life's like that   . also death.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55420705472886,"sku":"9781933880747","price":13.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_33649869.jpg?v=1748584594","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781933880747-without-my-asking-poetry","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}