{"product_id":"finishing-touches-paperback-1","title":"Finishing Touches - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRicardo Quinones\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom scholar-poet Ricardo Quinones comes his first collection of poetry since the critically-acclaimed \u003cem\u003eA Sorting of the Ways: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2011). \u003cem\u003eFinishing Touches\u003c\/em\u003e, Quinones fourth book of poems, is a purposeful combination of the old and the new.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe old, represented by \u003cem\u003eTeeming Americana\u003c\/em\u003e, has its logic in history and opens itself to dramatization while the new, \u003cem\u003eStation Crossings\u003c\/em\u003e, tends more towards philosophical gatherings and the quests and the needs of character types. The line of difference is marked by the first of the new poems, where reality of events seems to contradict the mythography of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePresented in prose, \"The Coda\" is followed by a \"defense of poésie,\" which then plays its part throughout the new poems. Thus, \u003cem\u003eStation Crossings\u003c\/em\u003e is made up of sections with two poems: the smaller, secondary one intended to counter, augment or disdain the primary, larger venture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.21 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 07, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48395827773689,"sku":"9780990864905","price":17.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/ikkUqpDaTd9780990864905.webp?v=1778619149","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/finishing-touches-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}