{"product_id":"the-exiles-gallery-paperback","title":"The Exiles' Gallery - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElise Partridge\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Elise Partridge's poetry collection is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElise Partridge's \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles' Gallery\u003c\/em\u003e extends the range of her widely acclaimed earlier books, \u003cem\u003eFielder's Choice\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eChameleon Hours\u003c\/em\u003e, praised as \"first-rate\" (James Pollock) for their \"authenticity\" (Stephanie Bolster) and \"brilliant precisions that reflect life's plenitude\" (Rosanna Warren).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWidely praised for her engagement and her attention to craft, Elise Partridge's \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles' Gallery\u003c\/em\u003e confirms her standing as one of the most thoughtful, authentic voices in contemporary poetry. The poems in her third collection continue to explore what she has called \"implicit questions about fullness of life or lives somehow thwarted, diminished, ended too early.\" Through formal technique, painterly detail or her signature compressed directness, Partridge's poems explore the past, present and future with compassion and grief, bearing witness to our not-so-still, all-too-brief lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbove all, \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles' Gallery\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of celebration. In these restless, nimble, and complex poems of apprehension -- whether by a candid glance backward at childhood or through tributes to friends -- Partridge's arresting images and diction give shape to the complexity and abundance of experience, made more luminous and gilt-edged by the corridor of encroaching shadows. Dispossessed but defiant, these are songs of preservation and love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElise Partridge's\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eFielder's Choice\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poems in Canada; \u003ci\u003eChameleon Hours\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the BC Book Prize, won the Canadian Authors Association Poetry Award, and was featured in the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \"Poet's Choice\" column. Her work has been anthologized in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., and has appeared in \u003ci\u003ePoetry, The New Yorker, Slate, Yale Review, Southwest Review, PN Review, The Walrus, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 09, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68418878210269,"sku":"9781770899797","price":23.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/ZXQ01f3L039781770899797.webp?v=1793782047","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/the-exiles-gallery-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}