{"product_id":"ink-monkey-9781894078504","title":"Ink Monkey","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \"like Emily Dickinson, Hartog melds the ordinary with the visionary.\"—Joseph Stroud, author of \u003cem\u003eBelow Cold Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCountry of Light\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInk Monkey\u003c\/em\u003e is Diana Hartog's first book of poetry in more than thirteen years, and her patience is the reader's reward. In these spare and elegant poems, not a word out of place, not an unnecessary syllable. Hartog turns a perceptive eye toward the stories of seemingly ordinary things, of overlooked moments and long-closed rooms. Whether she is writing about jellyfish, the desert, awkward silences that end a relationship, struggles of creativity, or Japanese prints, her poems are astute and beautiful.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Something \"up his sleeve,\" as when a man in the West simply\u003cbr\u003eleans against a wall with his hands in his pockets\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eand a woman walks by, her starched French cuff dangling an\u003cbr\u003e abalone button blinded with thread. The Muse leaning also,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003etowards the East and the past: the poetic looseness of kimono sleeves,\u003cbr\u003e damp with tears, in the Japanese canon of love. Sweet partings, trysts,\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eexposing always the wrist, its pale throat, the heartbeat's\u003cbr\u003e\nmuted throb at the fork of the two blue rivers\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—from \"Sleeves\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Diana Hartog","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48278407119099,"sku":"9781894078504","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781894078504.jpg?v=1772487898","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/ink-monkey-9781894078504","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}