{"product_id":"stitching-porcelain-poetry","title":"Stitching Porcelain: Poetry","description":"\u003cem\u003eStitching Porcelain\u003c\/em\u003e, Deborah Larsen's first book of poetry, is a narrative-lyric sequence based on the life of Matteo Ricci, the resourceful Jesuit who entered China in 1583 and stayed for a quarter century. Pondering cultural accommodation as well as faith, many of the poems center on actual events: Ricci's dressing as a Buddhist; his awe-inspiring map (with China shrewdly centered); his prostration before an empty Dragon Throne. Other events the poet imagined. (In the title room, Ricci addresses a love lyric to China: Your porcelain is so fine, so thin, \/a brass wire can repair it . . . \/Once I saw you beneath the bamboo\/ . . . bent back\/from the world, stitching porcelain.) With a felicity rare in a debut volume, Larsen's opalescent poetry works in perfect counterpoint to the strange and brilliant Ricci","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833673855181,"sku":"9780811211611","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_4ac7f33d-76b5-4cac-9166-9fbcc508415c.png?v=1790892772","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/stitching-porcelain-poetry","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}