{"product_id":"lungs-paperback-4","title":"Lungs - 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\u003eChris Bullard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChris Bullard\u003c\/strong\u003e gives full rein to his wit and pathos in Lungs, a collection of meditations on time, mortality, and the vagaries of the self. As he writes in \"Day of the Dead,\" \"I'd buried my past selves in desert graves\/where authorities wouldn't look. \/Now they've returned dressed in my clothes.\" Bullard's voice is deadpan, ironic, erudite, playfully, archly, and sometimes seriously morbid, not to mention amazing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLynn Levin, author of \u003cem\u003eHouse Parties\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe prime mover of these lively poems is death.\u003cstrong\u003e Chris Bullard \u003c\/strong\u003eknows exactly how to make a reader squirm, casting doctors and nurses as predators, turning the dead loose from their crypts, reminding us that life is a hopeless gamble because the house wins every time. Not even living \"as our own best selfie\" can protect us indefinitely from random lightning strikes, break-ins, or adverse health events. Bullard's poems circle closer and closer to an inescapable black hole, plunging us into it with the startling specificity of the final poem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne-Adele Wight, author of \u003cem\u003eAn Internet of Containment\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems CAT-scan below the surface of quotidian life and remind us there is not one among us who is not living with a terminal diagnosis, but it is an insight leavened by Bullard's command of craft, his characteristic dry wit, and the vitality of his voice. The angel's share, referenced in the collection's opening poem, \"Guilt,\" refers to that percentage of fine whiskey evaporated and lost in the aging process; in these clarified poems the losses of human aging become a release, a permission that borders on renewal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristine Gelineau, author of\u003cem\u003e Crave\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRemorseless Loyalty\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 30\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.07 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 04, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47354023346425,"sku":"9798888389461","price":25.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/PZW3WiYXtX9798888389461.webp?v=1769828989","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/lungs-paperback-4","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}