{"product_id":"the-time-we-have-misspent-paperback","title":"The Time We Have Misspent - 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\u003eM. Z. Ribalow\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eM. Z. Ribalow\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, playwright and author. His novel \u003ci\u003ePeanuts and Crackerjacks\u003c\/i\u003e, his new play \u003ci\u003eMasterpiece\u003c\/i\u003e and his poetry collection \u003ci\u003eChasing Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e are 2011 publications, and his short fiction appeared in an anthology on \u003ci\u003eLuck\u003c\/i\u003e in 2010. His two dozen plays have received some 180 productions in a dozen countries; four have been published. His work has been anthologized and has won prizes in London, New York, and regionally. He is series editor of the \u003ci\u003ePlays from New River\u003c\/i\u003e volumes (McFarland Publications) and has also co-written ten children's books and non-fiction books on sports, baseball and chess. He writes frequently on film, theatre, literature, music, and has appeared as a film historian on \u003ci\u003eThe Discovery Channel\u003c\/i\u003e and on special feature documentaries of several DVD releases of classic films. He is Artistic Director and co-founder of\u003ci\u003e New River Dramatists\u003c\/i\u003e, which has for the last decade successfully developed hundreds of new plays and screenplays while discovering and nurturing gifted writers, and which also presents poetry, fiction and drama on the\u003ci\u003e New River Radio Show\u003c\/i\u003e on \u003ci\u003eArt International Radio\u003c\/i\u003e online. He lives in New York City, where he is currently full-time artist-in-residence at Fordham University. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \"The Time We Have Misspent\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"With this collection of sonnets, Meir Z. Ribalow takes his rightful place alongside the likes of Frost, Millay, Shelley, Keats and - yes, I'll say it - Shakespeare, as one of our rare masters of the English language sonnet form. The evident joy with which Mr. Ribalow plays with language in each gem contained in this volume shows the freedom he feels where others find constraint; in the mere fourteen lines allotted him, Mr. Ribalow manages to take his readers on journeys as deep and as intimate as they are epic. You will be delighted, charmed, moved and awed by what you find in this collection. It is nothing short of astonishing.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e -Rhona Silverbush\u003c\/b\u003e, co-author, \u003ci\u003eSpeak the Speech  Shakespeare's Monologues Illuminated\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"By turns heartbreaking, wry, clever, and devastating (and sometimes all that and more in a single poem), these sonnets marry a precise attention to form with a casual conversational tone to create a universe of yearning observation. Combining the couplets of Pope with the concerns of Petrarch, Ribalow has created something new under the poetic sun that feels fresh and timeless at the same time. If you think sonnet-writing is a lost art, then this is the book to change your mind.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e -Matthew Wells\u003c\/b\u003e, 2011 winner of the Donna Jo Davis Discovery Prize for Poetry \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I'm not one for poems as words-to-live-by...except when they're words to live by, like almost every one of these. They don't so much rediscover or reinvent the sonnet as remind us why we loved sonnets in the first place.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e -Glen Hirshberg\u003c\/b\u003e, winner of the 2008 Shirley Jackson Award, author of \u003ci\u003eMotherless Child\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Bunk\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is an intelligent poet willing to address with tenderness, sometimes bluntness, all that he does \u003cb\u003enot\u003c\/b\u003e know - namely the reasons and rationales for the way a life unfolds. Still, 'I breathe as deeply as I dare, ' he says, and in the saying makes his reader want to breathe more deeply as well.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e -Allison Elrod\u003c\/b\u003e, 2012 winner of the Donna Jo Davis Discovery Prize for Poetry\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 114\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.27 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47350466085113,"sku":"9780985557706","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/b1hFY00rdVZaNDRTZzc2Yzh5bXlPZz09.webp?v=1769786397","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-time-we-have-misspent-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}