{"product_id":"little-bit-die-paperback","title":"little bit die - 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\u003eJason Emde\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJason Emde's poems in \u003cem\u003elittle bit die\u003c\/em\u003e are intimate and haunted recollections of travel and freedom, of friendship and loss, of leaving and getting home. Careening from small-town Canada to Zimbabwe to Mexico to Poland to Tiananmen Square to Gifu, Japan, Emde traces how the heart moves through its spheres of grief and the ways it endures \"in the middle of the noise.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It's a fantastic book; it broke my heart and made me laugh at the same time. Does it get any better than that?\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Susan Musgrave, author of \u003cem\u003eExculpatory Lilies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In heady intimate anaphoras that recall Allen Ginsberg and ecstatic catalogues of rich plurality and particularity reminiscent of Walt Whitman, Jason Emde's \u003cem\u003elittle bit die\u003c\/em\u003e traces a life bisected between Vernon, Canada and Gifu, Japan. These poems lead us through streets layered with the repeated footsteps of growing children, hotels haunted by a single night's drunken laughter, houses that remain identical outside but where \"modern-sleek\" updates replace the \"indescribable nameless junk\" that lives on in memory. At its heart, this book is an elegy for a friendship between \"two non-macho guys \/ who loved each other for 30 years\" and a testament to what it means to lose a friend who holds so much shared past. Emde plumbs the paradoxes of our inner and outer geographies. \u003cem\u003elittle bit die\u003c\/em\u003e leaves us with a curious and wonderous sense that we are-that every person is, every place is-\"just as vast \/ inside as out.\" These digressive, voice-driven, strange, and funny poems remind us how our daily errands, chores, and acts of care touch on the deepest mysteries of being. Like Frank O'Hara, Jason Emde's infectious voice and astonished attention to the intimate ordinary will follow you long after you set down this book.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Bronwen Tate, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Silk the Moths Ignore\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jason's incredible. Such energy and vision\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-John Lent, author of \u003cem\u003eA Matins Flywheel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJason Emde is a teacher, writer, undefeated amateur boxer, Prince enthusiast, creator and host of the \u003cem\u003eWriters Read Their Early Sh*t\u003c\/em\u003e podcast, and the author of\u003cem\u003e My Hand's Tired \u0026amp; My Heart Aches\u003c\/em\u003e. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and his work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eReal Travel\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Malahat Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSoliloquies Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Watershed Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and numerous other publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 94\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 26, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47350950101241,"sku":"9781775330073","price":16.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Ty9lS2NCdGlWQ0lPM2h0clEvTjBBQT09.webp?v=1769790654","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/little-bit-die-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}