{"product_id":"the-infernal-now-paperback","title":"The Infernal Now - 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\u003eArnold Johnston\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArnold Johnston's \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Infernal Now\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eoffers us poems that are acutely aware of mortality, counterbalanced by the timelessness of poetic forms, especially the sonnet, which he manages with flair. Johnston looks back \"to the tacky apartment where I lived alone\/On West Main Street, teaching sophomores how not to rhyme,\" while remaining attuned to the long-standing and present tense \"true love of [his] life...The world in [his] arms.\" In this artful sequence of poems, despite the realities of aging, covid, and climate change, Johnston writes his way \"to where 'end' is no verb, but just a noun,\" a fitting insight from a language-centered life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Diane Seuss, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003efrank: sonnets\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eFour-Legged Girl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Infernal Now, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e Arnold Johnston puts on full display his strong sense of craft honed throughout his long, distinguished writing career. In his masterful sonnets, and in his other fine poems, Johnston looks at his colorful past and his own mortality with wistful humor and disarming honesty. A delightful collection. We should all be so clear-eyed and good-natured.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Jim Daniels, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eGun\/Shy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eBirth Marks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I could give all to Time,\" says Robert Frost, \"except-except\/What I myself have held\" The poems in Arnold Johnston's \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Infernal Now\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e explore this complication with humor, beauty, and grace; they puzzle over what's held dear and yet must be let go, and over how on earth we live with that. The passing of friends, hardships of aging, Covid, 9\/11, loss, tugs at our successive nows-and yet the force of love, of hope, even of grief, provides a kind of shining forward toward whatever comes. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e -Nancy Eimers, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eOz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Grammar to Waking\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 38\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.09 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 09, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351119315193,"sku":"9781639800940","price":22.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/a1pEM0hCK2hvdnBVZVIvR3FvN3Rzdz09.webp?v=1769795245","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-infernal-now-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}