{"product_id":"the-manifesto-and-its-blue-ball-paperback","title":"The Manifesto and Its Blue Ball - 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\u003eLlewellyn McKernan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLlewellyn McKernan's \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Manifesto and Its Blue Ball\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of earlier poems\u003cbr\u003e(that show the writer feeling and figuring in insightful ways toward a poetic maturity), as\u003cbr\u003ewell as more recent poems filled with what Jerome Bruner believes is the central characteristic\u003cbr\u003eof creativity-\"effective surprise.\" In \"The Manifesto\" and the other title poem, \"The Blue Ball,\"\u003cbr\u003ewe enjoy the unusual angles the poet takes on her remarkable subjects, and elsewhere we are\u003cbr\u003etreated to surprise and delight not only in the deep meanings and metaphors, but in the delicious\u003cbr\u003emusic of the poet's language: \"Undress the mystery\/of summer, savor the fall's skill-killing frost, \u003cbr\u003ewinter's\/grid against the sky\" (\"Don't Be Down-Right\"). These poems are Llewellyn McKernan and we treasure them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Richard Hague, Author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eStudied Days: \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePoems Early \u0026amp; Late in Appalachia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Llewellyn McKernan's \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Manifesto and Its Blue Ball, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e a light, often rhymed, sometimes childlike whimsy veils a series, at times unsettling, but finally affirming view of poetry and nature. In \"Here's the Situation,\" \"dawn and noon\" and \"frog and loon\" release their rhymes only to reveal the unique poem that's grounded in its \"own\/unearthly\/unrehearsed howl.\" In \"I Believe,\" \"it's always winter in the Land of Faith,\" but the poet takes the snow there and\u003cbr\u003emakes it into a \"snowman the children love.\" In \"A Real Thing,\" \"a bright green willow\/\u003cbr\u003ereflected in a pond in summer\/is lucid and lovely-But don't try to touch it.\" Yes, beauty is\u003cbr\u003efragile but powerful. And so is \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Manifesto and Its Blue Ball\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Richard Spilman, Author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn The Night Speaking\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the poetry of a fully realized artist, driven by faithfulness to her craft and devotion to\u003cbr\u003ethe crucial but difficult journey of dwelling in the beautifully stressed shapes of human\u003cbr\u003eexperience or the treacherous and lovely terrain of the imagined places of the mind and heart-\u003cbr\u003eboth being ultimately a passageway to the life-line of the poem itself, \"The Blue Ball,\" pursued and celebrated in \"the duo of space and time\/present to our presence,\" \"from which it borrows only what\/it turns and returns\" to the ready reader's heart. I will keep this smart and lovely collection close always.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-George Eklund, Author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Island Blade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\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 0.17 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353900794105,"sku":"9781639804832","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/kI-bIP7Gij9781639804832.webp?v=1769828758","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-manifesto-and-its-blue-ball-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}