{"product_id":"grayscale-poems-paperback","title":"Grayscale: Poems - 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\u003eDavid Huddle\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his compelling new collection, David Huddle writes, \"We think \/ we stand in the vivid color of here and now \/ and view the past as drab black and white, \/ whereas the truth is -- it's our future \/ that's the off-center, badly focused grayscale.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpiraling between the tenses of time, David Huddle creates in these vibrant poems a defense against the encroachment of age through the resources of language and memory, imagination and art. Moments recollected--and admittedly embellished--from his own life and family seem appealingly familiar: a teenage dance, Grandmama's morning coffee, young daughters playing dolls. With age, wonder has become understanding, and so when intimations of his death arise in the midst of sharing a joke with his children, the poet shows us the comfort and peace that murky prospect may hold. Playful and fantastic narratives about penguin clans, Jane Goodall and the chimps, and what to do when it snaows offer wit and craft as further barriers against pain and despair. \"In my family we were \/all good at dreaming,\" Huddle's closing poem notes. Undaunted, Huddle gives us in \u003ci\u003eGrayscale\u003c\/i\u003e not false hopes about our lives but a range of ways to transcend their limits.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Huddle has published four previous poetry volumes, most recently \u003ci\u003eSummer Lake: New and Selected Poems.\u003c\/i\u003e He is also the author of six books of fiction, including \u003ci\u003eThe Story of a Million Years, \u003c\/i\u003e a \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e best book of the year in 1999. Originally from Virginia, he served as an enlisted man in the U.S. Army in Germany and Vietnam and has taught at the University of Vermont since 1971 and at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference since 1985.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 56\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 9.16 x 5.38 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 13, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48290434351353,"sku":"9780807129500","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/J7jZrC_WuU9780807129500.webp?v=1776283608","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/grayscale-poems-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}