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Asking
Asking | Shawna Lemay
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Asking?s a collection of poems and poem-essays about paintings, ekphrasis, beauty, and deep looking which takes its title from the lines by Phyllis Webb: "Listen. If I have known beauty / let's say I came to it / asking." Conversations on the page arise from observances made at cocktail parties, art galleries, at the kitchen table, and in the suburbs. Whether offering writing prompts or advice for aspiring poets, or enacting the conventions of ekphrasis, Asking is attentive to the movements and gestures of humans as they navigate a world of bewilderments and betrayal, but also a world of light and an ordinary beauty.
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Asking | Shawna Lemay
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Right in the first essay, Lemay pulled me in with a painfully accurate description of what happened to me when I saw “Officer and Laughing Girl” at the Frick. Light entered my heart. I was so overcome I went back to it five times before I left the museum and resolved to buy a print at the gift shop.

The prints were just pictures. Nothing special. I left them behind and cherished the memory of what Vermeer did to me when I first saw him in person.

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Asking | Shawna Lemay
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It‘s me again asking 🙄😱🤪😚 I just realized I‘ve gotten the Top Reviewer badge on NetGalley 🥳🥳 But, how do I find out which of my reviews have been used? Do I need to go through all the books I‘ve reviewed?

FantasyChick If you go to your shelf, under Feedback Sent select all and you can scroll the covers of all the books you've reviewed. Anything with the orange pen clip thingy is a featured review 😁 4y
Tove_Reads @FantasyChick Thanks!!! I did not see them. All the covers with the orange clip were either orange or red 😂😂 (edited) 4y
Crazeedi Congrats!!👏🎉 4y
Tove_Reads @Crazeedi Thanks! Didn‘t even realize it at first 😆 4y
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Asking | Shawna Lemay
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#7days7covers #covercrush

Crazeedi Beautiful 5y
Cathythoughts ✨✨✨✨✨ 5y
TrishB That‘s gorgeous 💕 5y
Lindy @Crazeedi @Cathythoughts @TrishB The author‘s husband Robert Lemay is an artist; that‘s one of his floral paintings on the cover. The publisher is Seraphim Press, a collaborative of authors. 5y
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