{"id":10062,"date":"2017-09-13T18:30:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T01:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classic.powertactics.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=10062"},"modified":"2019-03-08T13:12:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T21:12:50","slug":"bright-mirror","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/classic.powertactics.com\/product\/bright-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"Bright Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preview:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewerng\/viewer?url=https:\/\/classicalacademicpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bright-Mirror-Sample.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bright Mirror<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new book of 53 poems written by Christine Perrin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Praise for\u00a0<em>Bright Mirror<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cChristine Perrin\u2019s\u00a0<em>Bright Mirror<\/em>\u00a0may not raise its voice, but it does confront, with clarity and honesty, the glass darkly in which it sees itself. What it sees throughout its Vermeer-like hold on detail and the bright moment is the happiness of reconciliation.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Stanley Plumly<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn her\u00a0<em>Bright Mirror<\/em>, Christine Perrin offers in luminous figures the images gleaned from a lifetime of textual and intertextual reflection. Her ongoing dialogue with prior utterance and her uncommon care with the word, as such, make all the more evident that all such engagements are acts of participation with the living, with Life.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Scott Cairns<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe stately elegance of Perrin\u2019s verse is great enough that a 21st-century reader might forgivably figure it as distance. But the distance here is both tender and grave: a quality that necessarily inheres between the speaker and her God, between herself and her husband, her children, those she loves. These are, above all, poems of measure, poems that mark both what separates us and its occasional, keen transpiercings\u2014that make, as she says, the \u2018bright spinning complete.&#8217;\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014G.C. Waldrep<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn\u00a0<em>Bright Mirror<\/em>\u00a0gardens provide \u2018a carved out, narrow human place\u2019 in which Christine Perrin assembles, through the artifice of memory, an evolving story about her life.\u00a0<em>Bright Mirror<\/em>, however, is not a book about planting or the seasons of the earth but rather is a deeply devotional meditation on doubt and faith. Like a contemporary\u00a0<em>Book of Hours<\/em>, it asks us to stop and pay attention to the bright silences that fill our hours, days, and years.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Michael Collier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[241,242,38],"product_tag":[],"composite_virtual":false,"composite_layout":"","composite_add_to_cart_form_location":"","composite_editable_in_cart":false,"composite_sold_individually_context":"","composite_shop_price_calc":"","composite_components":[],"composite_scenarios":[],"bundled_by":[],"bundle_stock_status":"instock","bundle_stock_quantity":null,"bundle_virtual":false,"bundle_layout":"","bundle_add_to_cart_form_location":"","bundle_editable_in_cart":false,"bundle_sold_individually_context":"","bundle_item_grouping":"","bundle_min_size":"","bundle_max_size":"","bundled_items":[],"bundle_sell_ids":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bright Mirror - Classical Education Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/classic.powertactics.com\/product\/bright-mirror\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bright Mirror - Classical Education Books\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Preview:\u00a0Bright Mirror  A new book of 53 poems written by Christine Perrin.  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