{"product_id":"carbonation-018-white-door","title":"Carbonation 018: White Door","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a wide range of formally varied and playful poems, the speaker of White Door explores her emigration to the US from a European country as an adult: how fundamentally and irreversibly distance and longing change old perspectives and memories; how watching her child grow up in a in many ways alienating environment helped root her while challenging ideas of herself; what a complex and ambivalent web of emotions questions of home and belonging can set off; how there is no one nor any definite answer. In that sense, the poems are largely autobiographical and self-reflective. Their poetry is firmly rooted in the speaker's everyday and the bonds that hold her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the first astonishing poem of White Door you can feel itÑthe stitching together of separated things, the line pulling away from the sentence and then hard-threaded back at stanzaÕs end, the then pulling away from the now, the child from the mother, frayed, and then hand-sewn back. Burgi ZenhaeusernÕs language is stitch-work, textile, sensory, but the kind of sensory that begins to lean figurative, to mean more than it says. The I can be Òlight forced through \/ split clouds,Ó or Òmy shiny coinÓ can be Òfalling into the empty well of meÑits bright ping,Ó the sun can be a she, Òher mouth a white-hot hole,Ó fear can be Òpacked like old snow.Ó When I look up after disappearing into the careful weave of these poems, I am amazed to find how far moved I am from where I started, how completely everything behind me has changed in the new light.\u003cbr\u003e\n- Kathryn Cowles, author of Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFramed by the tender ordinary, by branches through the kitchen window, by generational memory and a grandfatherÕs painted Alpine meadow, Burgi ZenhaeusernÕs White Door asks the central question of poetry: ÒHow long \/ can you continue without yearning?Ó Simone Weil wrote that unmixed attention is prayer, and this collection streams with the light of attention and language that feels to me holy.\u003cbr\u003e\n- Han VanderHart, author of Larks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn White Door, Burgi Zenhaeusern circles back again and again to necessary, enduring questionsÑhow to care for each other, what home isÑrefusing to settle for anything less than the real. Despite the way exploration tends to Òre-etch longing,Ó despite the complexities of language and being, these poems do not give up their hunger to understand. Intelligence and integrity shine through them.\u003cbr\u003e\nKasey Jueds, author of The Thicket, poetry, poem, Emigration, Alienation, Family, Inequity, Burgi Zenhaeusern| 9781257756643 | 79PAGES\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burgi Zenhaeusern","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46768223158433,"sku":"9781257756643","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/958dgev-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1785207280","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/carbonation-018-white-door","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}