{"id":620,"date":"2016-03-27T14:11:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T14:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/?p=620"},"modified":"2016-05-17T15:11:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T15:11:59","slug":"the-dear-remote-nearness-of-you-danielle-legros-georges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/book\/the-dear-remote-nearness-of-you-danielle-legros-georges\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>THE DEAR REMOTE NEARNESS OF YOU<\/em>, DANIELLE LEGROS GEORGES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/book\/the-dear-remote-nearness-of-you-danielle-legros-georges\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vertical-align:text-top alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/remotenearness.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Dear Remote Nearness of You<\/em> speaks poetry\u2019s origin in new and startling ways. This is the precise intelligence that knows it must step carefully across the light on the surface of the water&#8230; These poems form the contiguous dance of language choosing its own body at will, traveling across light and the dimensions of unarticulated history. This is the word rubbed onto the palimpsest of our being, the careful solo soprano in the space where music ends and poetry moves in to name what is eternal and what is only in the abbreviation of now. What a delightful book from Boston\u2019s Poet Laureate.<br \/>\n\u2014Afaa Michael Weaver<\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"HPSHKTU6CU2CJ\" \/><input type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_buynow_SM.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/form>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nSublime, by which I mean these poems present a world not merely beautiful, but so charged with life as to induce wonder. Desire, in all her manifestations (spells, curses, jealousy, want), runs through these pages\u2014desire to live, desire to die, desire for justice (\u201cThe world \/ conspiring to add \/ to whatever\u2019s riding \/ you\u201d). I was lost, for few hours, in these pages, beautifully lost, and then I came back\u2014this is why I read poems.<br \/>\n\u2014Nick Flynn<\/p>\n<p><em>The Dear Remote Nearness of You<\/em> will both move your heart and rattle you to the core. These lyrical, poignant, and powerful poems show Danielle Legros Georges\u2019 deep intellect and profound empathy, as well as her endless gifts as a poet, storyteller, and brilliant oracle of the human spirit.<br \/>\n\u2014Edwidge Danticat<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is it like to eat cold eels and think distant thoughts?&#8221; <a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1Thf5Kx\" data-text=\"'What is it like to eat cold eels and think distant thoughts?' #DanielleLegrosGeorges\" data-count=\"none\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In spite of all who would renounce petals \/ the petals come:&#8221; <a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1Thf5Kx\" data-text=\"'In spite of all who would renounce petals \/ the petals come:' #DanielleLegrosGeorges\" data-count=\"none\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p><code><\/code><br \/>\n<strong>Poem for the Poorest Country<br \/>\nIn the Western Hemisphere<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh poorest country, this is not your name.<br \/>\nYou should be called flame and beacon, <\/p>\n<p>almond and bougainvillea, garden<br \/>\nand green mountain, villa and hut,<\/p>\n<p>girl with red ribbons in her hair,<br \/>\nbooks under arm, charmed by the light<\/p>\n<p>of morning, charcoal seller in black skirt,<br \/>\nencircled by dead trees.<\/p>\n<p>You, country, are merchant woman<br \/>\nand eager clerk, grandfather<\/p>\n<p>at the gate, at the crossroads<br \/>\nwith the flashlight, with the light,<\/p>\n<p>with the light.<\/p>\n<p><code><\/code><br \/>\n<strong><em>The Dear Remote Nearness of You<\/em> (2016) ISBN: 978-0-9893296-9-9<\/strong><br \/>\nPlease email infobarrow at gmail.com to place an order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dear Remote Nearness of You speaks poetry\u2019s origin in new and startling ways. 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