{"product_id":"bladesong-paperback","title":"Bladesong - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnn T. Power\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo often one hears the question \"\"What can we do?\"\" More often than not, it remains a question without the effort of an answer. Yet in the turbulence and terror of the French Revolution, a time much like today, when the new sacrificed the old, when man insisted on replacing God, a community of Carmelites offered the oblation of their lives for peace, not without imagined horror, anxiety, and misgiving. The nuns were expelled from their convent and had to live in four separate houses and wear secular dress. In a strange coincidence, their clothes being washed at the time of their capture, they had nothing but their habits to wear. They witnessed as a community united--in the court where they were condemned, as they traveled in the carts toward death, and as they ascended, one by one, the steps to the guillotine and asked permission to die. Ten days after their deaths, the French Revolution ended. This is the story of an \"\"unhushed\"\" Blade, a story that repeats and demonstrates again through history how courage and sacrifice triumph.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnn Power is a retired faculty member from the University of Alabama. She enjoys writing historical sketches as well as poems based in the kingdoms of magical realism. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eSpillway\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Gargoyle Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Birmingham Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The American Poetry Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Dappled Things\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Caveat Lector\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Copperfield Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Ekphrastic Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Loch Raven Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Halfway Down the Stairs\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand other journals. In addition, two of her poems have been nominated for Best of the Net in Poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.21 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 20, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47581951525085,"sku":"9798385236268","price":12.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/u1Lfp56wS49798385236268.webp?v=1773566611","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/bladesong-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}