{"product_id":"ordinary-hours-9781926829906","title":"Ordinary Hours","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSophomore collection of exquisite precision and musicality from a classically trained pianist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Hours\u003c\/i\u003e, the follow-up to Karen Enns' Gerald Lampert Award-nominated first collection, \u003ci\u003eThat Other Beauty,\u003c\/i\u003e we revisit Enns' rural Mennonite childhood, replete with the sensuousness of \"diesel fuel\" and \"hot peaches.\" Enns also explores the Mennonite exodus from Russia, tracking its faint but unmistakable reverberations in the daily lives of its survivors and revealing the redemptive character of that dailiness. Reading an Enns poem feels effortless: her rhythms and phrasing are so minutely calibrated that the poem unfolds as if of its own accord:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"It was the ashtray on the arm of the chair,\u003cbr\u003ebooks lining the stairs, tapping rain,\u003cbr\u003ethe smell of soup in the kitchen\u003cbr\u003eand black bread and nothing more.\u003cbr\u003eWhat exists, existed there.\u003cbr\u003eThe spirit floundering and being saved\u003cbr\u003eagain and again in the ordinary hours.\u003cbr\u003eThe fountain in the garden like a simple well,\u003cbr\u003ethe poplars, past the hedge,\u003cbr\u003ethe sommerhaus with its green roof.\"\u003cbr\u003e—from \"William Street Elegies\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Karen Enns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48278419833083,"sku":"9781926829906","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781926829906.jpg?v=1772488059","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/ordinary-hours-9781926829906","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}