{"title":"Martha Ronk","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMartha Ronk\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a richly textured exploration of place and perception through her poetry. With works such as \u003cem\u003eClay\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Place One Is\u003c\/em\u003e, her writing invites readers into a dialogue with the natural world and the nuances of human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in the \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e tradition, Ronk's work balances vivid imagery with contemplative insight, making her collection a thoughtful journey for those who appreciate reflective and evocative literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-place-one-is-by-martha-ronk-9781632431035","title":"The Place One Is","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA collection from celebrated poet Martha Ronk considering the relationship between person, body, and place.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Place One Is\u003c\/em\u003e explores the intersection of person and place, the ways in which changes in the tangible world alter one’s vision, bodily posture, vocabulary, and concern for—to take one example—the dwindling water supply in California. The body’s position, its geometry, and the topography of the surrounding land become less and less recognisable as body and world blend together. Gravel giving way underfoot mirrors the way that words dissolve into mumbles, and the skeleton of a rusty car on the sand appears like one’s own skeleton. Ronk shows that disintegration here is disintegration there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese poems also wonder at interdependence, considering how lines intersect and continue to connect us to the sea—and to islands, lagoons, greenery, sky, and space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first part of the collection, the poems focus on a rural landscape, and in the second part, they consider the overly bright urban world of Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47433006285036,"sku":"9781632431035","price":33.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781632431035.jpg?v=1774765827"},{"product_id":"clay-by-martha-ronk-9781632431677","title":"Clay","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePoetry that finds meaning and connection in the process of creating pottery from clay.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003cem\u003eClay\u003c\/em\u003e look to the process of forming clay on a potter's wheel to examine our sense of touch and texture, emptiness, fragility, and the nature of time. Martha Ronk moves through the steps of creating a pot that must be formed, dried, bisque-fired, glazed, and fired again. This practice is paralleled in Ronk's process-oriented language that addresses how we read texture and colour, the ways history and landscapes appear in glazes, Mimbres bowls that covered the faces of the dead, and Giorgio Morandi's still life paintings of ceramic forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor Ronk, pottery raises questions about the value of repetition, inevitable failure, and how we may become one with matter. As the potter's hands ache and age, the bowl seems to age as it slumps or breaks. \u003cem\u003eClay\u003c\/em\u003e includes observations from other potters and writers as well as small photographs of pots.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48010553917676,"sku":"9781632431677","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781632431677-clay.jpg?v=1785151455"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/martha-ronk.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}