{"product_id":"vespers-jane-lewty-9781685971014","title":"Vespers","description":"Often called “evening prayer,” vespers is held around sunset. Its purpose: to give thanks for the day and offer a sacrifice of praise to God. In Jane Lewty’s Vespers, she superimposes the tropes of the Christian ritual onto a very different type of sacrifice—that of making art.   Through nightly devotion, the speaker of these poems maps ritual until it degrades: the speaker as an obedient robot, a scribe-concubine, a centaur wearing skates, a poet seeking virtuosity and dexterity. Vespers asks: What if writing prompts are a bad idea? What if one could become addicted to the incremental process? Is it possible to walk away from an addiction without suffering and trauma?","brand":"University of Iowa Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68208043753760,"sku":"9781685971014","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781685971014_3123551.jpg?v=1794243318","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/vespers-jane-lewty-9781685971014","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}