{"product_id":"orphan-hours-paperback-by-stanley-plumly-1","title":"Orphan Hours Paperback by Stanley Plumly","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eWW Norton\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2013-10-08)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e112\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780393076646\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e149.69\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e21.08 x 14.1 x 0.89\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Combines stateliness, formal beauty and emotional urgency in rich and musical tapestries of language. . . . Every poem . . . is masterful.”—\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrphan Hours\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of reconciliation, of coming to terms with time in its most personal and memorable manifestations, and of learning the wisdom of what cannot be changed. The urgency of the elegy has been absorbed by an acceptance of the detail, texture, and small moments that constitute and enrich mortality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom “Lapsed Meadow\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI remember, in Ohio, fields of wastes of nature,\u003cbr\u003e\nlost pasture, fallow clearings, buckwheat\u003cbr\u003e\nand fireweed and broken sparrow nests,\u003cbr\u003e\nespecially in the summer, in the fading hilltop sun,\u003cbr\u003e\nwhen you could lose yourself by simply lying down.\u003cbr\u003e\nWho will find you, who will call you home now, at dusk,\u003cbr\u003e\nwith the dry tips of the goldenrod confused\u003cbr\u003e\nwith a little wind, filling in what’s left of the light.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStanley Plumly\u003c\/b\u003e (1939–2019) was the author of numerous collections of poetry including \u003ci\u003eIn the Outer Dark\u003c\/i\u003e (1970), winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, and \u003ci\u003eOut-of-the-Body Travel\u003c\/i\u003e (1978), nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Other works include \u003ci\u003eGiraffe\u003c\/i\u003e (1973), \u003ci\u003eSummer Celestial\u003c\/i\u003e (1983), \u003ci\u003eBoy on the Step\u003c\/i\u003e (1989), \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage in the Trees\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), and \u003ci\u003eNow That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, 1970–2000 (2000), \u003ci\u003eAgainst Sunset\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), and the posthumous \u003ci\u003eMiddle Distance\u003c\/i\u003e (2020). His collection \u003ci\u003eOld Heart\u003c\/i\u003e (2009) won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Paterson Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He authored four works of prose: \u003ci\u003ePosthumous Keats: A Personal Biography\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), which was named runner-up for the PEN\/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography; \u003ci\u003eThe Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), which received the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism; \u003ci\u003eElegy Landscapes: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), and \u003ci\u003eArgument and Song: Sources and Silences in Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (2003). Plumly was a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland as well as Maryland’s poet laureate from 2009 to 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \n                \n            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46553066832033,"sku":"BBSNIJ9780393076646","price":18.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9780393346626_6fe1fe54-b142-4055-8f9d-dec2f199caae.jpg?v=1781725237","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/orphan-hours-paperback-by-stanley-plumly-1","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}