{"product_id":"imago-paperback-6","title":"Imago - 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\u003eBrian Swann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exuberant collection of poems celebrating art, nature, and humanity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis various and vital poetry collection, in rich language and sharp detail, spans the rural and urban, country and town, and foreign and domestic. Tracing the vagaries of the self, these poems record and transmute biography from an English youth to the trials and challenges of aging in America. Memorable for its exuberant voice and exacting eye, Brian Swann's \u003ci\u003eImago\u003c\/i\u003e is awake to the natural world as well as the world within. From the half-page title poem to the multi-section \"Elegiac,\" this volume is striking in its largeness, its tone evolving from self-indicting to ecstatic and self-transcendent. This collection, the author's fourteenth, is moving both as art and as testament.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImago unfolds much like a piece of music. It is a continuum by which Swann sees nature and art interwoven in the ways they emerge and change. In \"Grief and Magritte,\" Swann muses upon \"all of us snagged in a net whose skeins tangle in night sky \/ where one star dreams another.\" The title poem focuses on an insect \"on its way through the changes, the patterns \/ of what led up to it, the catches and releases . . . saying now, and now\" till \"splitting down the back\" such changes \"release what was always there.\" Brian Swann's poems, moving in their candor, read as though they have always been there, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrian Swann\u003c\/b\u003e teaches at Cooper Union. He is the author, editor, or translator of more than 50 books and 14 poetry collections, including\u003ci\u003e In Late Light\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSunday Out of Nowhere: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 28, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47350735929593,"sku":"9781421445670","price":37.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/WUh2aFVxNnBrYmE2Q2lLN0hLUldvQT09_053e70d7-e6f1-4613-b7ad-c34447bda793.webp?v=1769790120","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/imago-paperback-6","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}