{"product_id":"high-wire-paperback","title":"High Wire - 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\u003eStephen Anderson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn varied landscapes-from Chicago to Miami, Paris to Rio, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eHigh Wire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e explores universal emotional territory: the \"shaky, thin wire we all must tread\" in \"these dire, barely translatable, times.\" But translate the poet does. Here, through the everyday of beauty of \"brazen-faced marigolds\" or the in macabre memory of a drowned fisherman, Stephen Anderson looks unflinchingly at the \"jarring and jagged cut-you-up things,\" but ultimately attests to the way \"true things linger.\" These stirring poems probe the mysterious edges of those true things, that \"juncture of the lucid and the luminous.\" Follow this poet's vision as he brings us \"hawk swoops\" or Van Gogh's \"cocaine of pure genius,\" as he reminds us to marvel at the cornucopia, before the moments \"pass us by like fireflies in the night.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Kimberly Blaeser, author of\u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003eCopper Yearning, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eWisconsin Poet Laureate 2015-16\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems in Stephen Anderson's \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eHigh Wire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e consistently engage and enthrall the reader, whether visiting Neruda's house and harvesting poems written on leaves or attending to his dying mother in the hospital. The focus of the poems in this collection is truly cosmopolitan, ranging from Milwaukee to Chile, Panama to Paris, Brooklyn to Mexico, with each poem rather like \"a field of sunflowers lighting the way.\" As in the title of one of the poems, \"Looking for Seashells,\" Anderson is always in quest of that momentary glimpse when reality shows through the surface of creation. Like Karl Wallenda balancing on a tight rope, Anderson nimbly traverses this high wire act, each poem a successful step above the abyss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Timothy Walsh, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen the World Was Rear-Wheel Drive\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003eHigh Wire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e Stephen Anderson's new and selected poems, we encounter a speaker who dreams for us of \"seeing life with one's heart\" in the midst of \"sheet-metal pipe, oxidized iron clump, Big Mac Wrappers and pizza box and toxic dump.\" Anderson's early Peace Corps experience in Chile and university teaching in London give the poems political weight and global scope. His poems offer sorrow and hope, believing, in \"Song of Graffiti,\" that what is said matters, can \"stoke a war and, later, entreat peace\"...\"turn around a life.\" This is a poet who balances clear sight and open heart in a high wire act of his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Robin Chapman, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Only Home We Know\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 82\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 November 29, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351097983225,"sku":"9781639800575","price":25.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/cHVXeUpBNVMzNEFPcWlsTzlCc0NrZz09.webp?v=1769795143","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/high-wire-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}