{"product_id":"jump-straight-up-paperback","title":"Jump Straight Up - 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\u003eJarold Ramsey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRushing in as a welcome surprise, these \"new late poems\" were mostly composed both late in the year and late in the author's years. In \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eJump Straight Up\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003e Jarold Ramsey versifies and pokes at an odd knot of themes: encroaching age overtaking a long wonderful marriage; the delights of grandparenthood; awareness of our \"interspecies\" situation in the everyday natural order; the blessings and challenges of Central Oregon's canyons, summits, and rangelands; and the intriguing ways the mostly horizontal left-to-right axis of our lives seems to shift in old age toward the vertical-\"way down\" (and out) but also \"jump straight up\" (in the imagination).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\"Whether it's with elegies or tributes, Ramsey prompts us toward joy, urging us to \u003cem\u003ejump straight up, \/ free of the gravity of time.\u003c\/em\u003e\"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e-Paulann Petersen, author of My Kindred\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Jump Straight Up\u003c\/em\u003e is a buoyantly beautiful report from a Northwest master at age 85.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-John Daniel, author of\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGifted\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"Ramsey delivers accounts of history, local lore, love for kinfolk, and yearning to understand the changes carrying us all along, richly in need of poems just like these.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Kim Stafford, author of \u003cem\u003eSinger Come from Afar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 48\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.13 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 07, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47295780913401,"sku":"9781956285444","price":16.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/lt2bpedSrg9781956285444.webp?v=1769206167","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/jump-straight-up-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}