{"product_id":"hard-to-be-a-hero-paperback","title":"Hard To Be a Hero - 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\u003eAlec Solomita\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlec Solomita's poems are precise and lucid in observation and expression alike, elegant and passionate accounts of those moments in life that stop us in our tracks and yet ultimately keep us going. Luminous visions of childhood, surreal dream images, desire's potent lineaments (both gratified and not), memories of a beloved partner-through some alchemy, Solomita's poems cause these disparate, sometimes startling ingredients to coalesce into a single elixir, the final sip of which contains the flavors of all, mingled yet distinct.\u003cbr\u003eJohn Canaday is the author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eCritical Assembly: Poems of the Manhattan Project\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible World, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, and \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bombs. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlec Solomita is one of our most mellifluous, vigorous, witty, and truth-loving poets. His work reveals a spirited dexterity with form and a crisp, clear voice. He is like no one else in his refined sarcastic mode. He pokes fun at both himself and society but betrays his vulnerability when speaking of those whom this poet has loved or lost. He can both sing in meter and converse in free verse, of things both small and big, a whole universe of them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe work of bilingual Russian poet and fiction writer Katia Kapovich has been celebrated in both her native and adopted countries. She received the US Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellowship. Her two books in English are\u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003eGogol in Rome (2004)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003eCossacks and Bandits (2008).\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlec Solomita is a master of casual yet delicate surrealism. He is also a poet with both feet squarely planted in candor. It is upon this honesty that Solomita's work rests so buoyantly. \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eHard to Be a Hero\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is finely peppered with a sophisticated innocence: the white soles of his little brother's Converse All-Stars dance and vanish on the dime-bright air; as the speaker approaches seventy, a \"child comes with me, \/taking my hand as a child will. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrannie Lindsay, author of\u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Snow's Wife\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 84\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 21, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351129309433,"sku":"9781639801053","price":25.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Q015YVliTDYxamZGY2tDemhoQUVpQT09.webp?v=1769795292","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/hard-to-be-a-hero-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}