{"product_id":"first-loves-and-other-adventures","title":"First Loves and Other Adventures","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Loves and Other Adventures\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eGrace Schulman\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780472050871\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of Michigan Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2009\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e168\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrace Schulman's acclaimed poetry is often about joy, the celebration of the miraculous, and the birth of beauty from adversity. In her new prose collection, she explores the passion for reading and other disciplines that led her to exult in her craft.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFirst Loves and Other Adventures\u003c\/i\u003e Schulman explores how she became a writer; her wide-ranging influences; and some of the many writers and works that have enchanted her over the years, ranging from Genesis and Song of Songs in the King James Bible to T. S. Eliot to Walt Whitman. These reflections on her art and career touch on a variety of other disciplines, including science, the novel, music, and art, and their relation to poetry as a field. Her belief that art transcends formal boundaries is a recurring theme throughout her discussion of these influences, as well as in her own work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrace Schulman is the author of six books of poems. Among her honors are the Aiken Taylor Award for poetry, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and New York University's Distinguished Alumni Award. Her poems have won three Pushcart Prizes, and her collection \u003ci\u003eDays of Wonder\u003c\/i\u003e was selected by \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e as one of the best poetry books of 2002. Schulman is the former director of the Poetry Center and former poetry editor of the \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e and currently is Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA volume in the POETS ON POETRY series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"First Loves and Other Adventures | Grace Schulman | Paperback | 9780472050871 | Used: Like New | Literary Criticism 1740818","offer_id":50891533123842,"sku":"1740818","price":21.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71N2H1IzkQL.jpg?v=1793124844","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/first-loves-and-other-adventures","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}