{"product_id":"past-lives-paperback","title":"Past Lives - 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\u003eV. Joshua Adams\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003ePast Lives\u003c\/em\u003e, each line leaps to the next in glorious unpredictability, forming a latticework of surprise. In the world of V. Joshua Adams, we have competitive knitting, beer commercials, cabriolets, and mandolin players breaking ukulele players' fingers. To employ a Pavement title, Adams's poems are \"slanted and enchanted\" their surrealist strangeness is sometimes meditative and sometimes mercurial with acrobatic associative jumps. These are poems of wit, inquiry, and sonic vigor that examine issues of being, textuality, and the imaginative act. \u003cem\u003ePast Lives\u003c\/em\u003e is \"swift-winged and sharp\" and \"darkly bright\" as its sentences spin with wryness: \"Even the language of ruin gets run-down,\" \"The question filled me with dread, \/ which was better than nothing,\" and the following excerpt, from which the title \u003cem\u003ePast Lives\u003c\/em\u003e arises: \"A lot of people have past lives they are covering up. \/ For example, I was once an Episcopalian.\" Though Adams's poems aren't overtly emotional, he extends his antennae into a range of consciousness including desire and darkness; or, to use a phrase from Mark Doty, they are a \"logarithm of decay and rekindling.\" \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cem\u003e-Simone Muench\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 84\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 July 15, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47352661770489,"sku":"9781956907100","price":19.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/1Fl6P9S55d9781956907100.webp?v=1769815420","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/past-lives-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}