{"product_id":"then-suddenly-paperback","title":"Then Suddenly-- - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLynn Emanuel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinalist for \u003ci\u003eForeWord Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e's 1999 Poetry Book of the Year \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A reader and a writer don their respective roles and embark on the journey of a book. This is their story--ultimately a love story--darkly funny, mournful, testy. It is about a reader who at times presides over the page like a god, and at others follows the leash of the author's voice through the dark streets of the book like a dog, and it is about a writer of determined slipperiness. As we read, we think that each of us is The Reader, the one who knows the Real Story. But the more we think we understand, the more the story moves away from us-all is not what it seems. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This eagerly awaited third volume by the poet whose work \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e described as \"at once charmed and frightening\" is a book of high-spirited subversiveness, a work of argument, seduction, and a relentless devotion to language. \u003ci\u003eThen, Suddenly-\u003c\/i\u003e bristles with the sound of the author's voice--insistent, vital, hilarious, and iconoclastic--tearing away at the confinement of the page and at the distance between the page and the reader. Emanuel's images are dazzling. She creates a performance that is fearsome and funny in its portrayal of the argument between the work of the text and the world of the body. The Gettsyburg Review has called her a writer of \"exquisite craftsmanship\" who can \"strike from language . . . images chiseled clean as bas-relief.\" \u003ci\u003eThen, Suddenly-\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of spectacle and verve, part elegy, part vaudeville.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLynn Emanuel\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eNoose and Hook\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Hotel Fiesta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Dig\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Then, Suddenly\u003c\/i\u003e, and most recently, \u003ci\u003eThe Nerve of It\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the Lenore Marshall Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her work has been collected numerous times in \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and included in \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Book of American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. She has been published and reviewed in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBOMB Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e. She has been a judge for the National Book Awards and has taught at many venues including the Warren Wilson Program and the Bread Loaf Conference.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.29 x 8.02 x 6.16 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 28, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42703654125631,"sku":"9780822957096","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/2f489eff022b2d6fa34a151e45f1779a.webp?v=1765030167","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/then-suddenly-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}