{"id":15912,"date":"2025-10-07T04:59:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/?post_type=product&#038;p=15912"},"modified":"2025-12-04T11:52:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:52:03","slug":"a-limited-number-of-miracles","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/shop\/a-limited-number-of-miracles\/","title":{"rendered":"A Limited Number of Miracles"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/jonathan-penton\">Jonathan Penton<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3>A Limited Number of Miracles: a walk through the New Orleans Sculpture Garden<\/h3>\n<p>ISBN: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">978-1-956921-61-8<\/span>\u00a0(pbk.)<\/p>\n<p>(November 15, 2025)\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\">In <i>A Limited Number of Miracles: a walk through the New Orleans Sculpture Garden<\/i>, poet Jonathan Penton explores sixty-six pieces from the Sculpture Garden and the feelings they evoke. He uses these sculptures to process and discuss themes of grief, family, relationships, and sexuality. The result is a complex tome of ekphrasis and emotion, covering a wide range of subjects and themes, all centered in the beautiful New Orleans Sculpture Garden.<\/p>\n<p>Note: &#8220;New Orleans Sculpture Garden&#8221; is an informal description of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\">Dexterous and captivating, Jonathan Penton\u2019s <i>A Limited Number of Miracles<\/i> is a powerfully political navigation through the New Orleans Sculpture Garden. In stunning poems of slant ekphrasis, Penton engages inventively and intuitively with the artworks, often in dialogue with them. Furthermore, as the poems question what the sculptures \u201cknow\u201d, they constitute a moving, extended elegy for the departed. This is pulsating writing, cognizant of the ineffable, celebrating complexity and the visceral in equal measure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>\u2014Cassandra Atherton<\/strong>, co-editor of <i>Ekphrastic Poetry: An Introduction<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Jonathan Penton conjures a poetic travel log within a sculpture garden, offering a sustained collection of musings, recriminations and epiphanies extending beyond both the representative and the abstract. <i>A Limited Number of Miracles<\/i> provides the reader with a welcome dichotomy of possibilities and reality checks. I really loved this manuscript.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It took me on quite a journey, a very impressive one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>\u2014Gina Ferrara<\/strong>, Poet Laureate of Louisiana 2025\u20137, author of <i>Amiss<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">these are poems about things that exist within a very specific place. the pieces in this book never allow these pieces to forget that. neither do these pieces forget where the poet is. these pieces are as atmospheric as they are ekphrastic. the speaker of the poem, if such a thing exists in any of these poems, carries its sense of self and setting into each sculpture while helping these pieces to speak for their selves. as such, the reader can bring oneself into this book and into this garden and hear these sculptures not only speak but to converse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>\u2014Kenning JP Garc\u00eda<\/strong>, author of <i>With (Really Serious Literature)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Rilke\u2019s famous poem \u201cArchaic Torso of Apollo\u201d begins by describing the external features of a classical statue, but pivots suddenly and shockingly to the viewer\u2019s internal state. Jonathan Penton accomplishes this with a virtual stroll past 66 sculptures from the Besthoff Sculpture Garden in New Orleans, responding initially to their forms, but as the walk progresses, to the raw emotions they provoke. \u201cLet\u2019s cross paths in a sculpture garden \/ with suspicion in our eyes,\u201d he writes. Don\u2019t miss the chance to seize a copy of this book and say yes to a master fl\u00e2neur\u2019s invitation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>\u2014Julie Kane,<\/strong> Poet Laureate of Louisiana 2011\u20133, author of <i>Naked Ladies<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/jonathan-penton\">Jonathan Penton<\/a><br \/>\n9781956921618<br \/>\n&#8220;This is pulsating writing, cognizant of the ineffable, celebrating complexity and the visceral in equal measure. &#8220;\u2014Cassandra Atherton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[236,16],"product_tag":[509,517,18],"class_list":{"0":"post-15912","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-books","7":"product_cat-lavender-ink","8":"product_tag-jonathan-penton","9":"product_tag-louisiana","10":"product_tag-poetry","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"taxable","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple","18":"berocket_lgv_grid","19":"berocket_lgv_list_grid"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jonathan Penton explores sixty-six pieces from the New Orleans Sculpture Garden at Lavender Ink \/ Di\u00e1logos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In A Limited Number of Miracles: a walk through the New Orleans Sculpture Garden, poet Jonathan Penton explores sixty-six pieces from the Sculpture Garden and the feelings they evoke. 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