{"product_id":"the-vinegar-in-our-hearts-triolets-9781968148331","title":"The Vinegar in Our Hearts: Triolets","description":"\u003cp\u003eReader, the book you hold is made of poems which make a novel constantly unmaking itself; an (unfinished) essay on \"Unrealistic Conceptions of Love in Malcolm Lowry's \u003cem\u003eUnder the Volcano\u003c\/em\u003e\"; and a letter from a former lover to a formerly beloved. Much of the book's matter is compressed into that most compact and demanding of fixed forms, the triolet, which, in Jesse DeLong's deft and artful hands, acts as a prism, refracting and defamiliarizing language, thought, and feeling, and revealing the mind to itself as \"a collage\/ different than exists in the known universe.\" Also revealed: the heart, here a vessel for vinegar, that astringent, if flavorful, if no longer intoxicating, remnant of love. Maximalist and minimalist, brilliant and tender, \u003cem\u003eThe Vinegar in Our Hearts \u003c\/em\u003eresists the constraining artifice of closure, offering instead \"silence and solitude not as an emptiness, but as a fullness of self.\" Take it as it is offered: in kind. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Brad Richard, author of \u003cem\u003eTurned Earth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jesse DeLong\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornerstone Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.23d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781968148331\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeLong, Jesse:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jesse DeLong is the author of The Amateur Scientist's Notebook (2021). He works as the Assistant Director of Creative Writing at Louisiana State University where he teaches writing and literature. Other work has appeared in Colorado Review, Mid-American Review, Indiana Review, and Typo as well as the anthologies Best New Poets 2011 and Feast: Poetry and Recipes for a Full Seating at Dinner. He lives in Louisiana with his wife, Keosha, and his daughter, Alora.","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Jesse DeLong \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47699070582941,"sku":"9781968148331","price":37.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_6aea6b52-f5ac-4dbd-a5b0-d355b51c37fc.jpg?v=1772697532","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-vinegar-in-our-hearts-triolets-9781968148331","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}