{"product_id":"time-and-other-solvents-paperback","title":"Time and Other Solvents - 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\u003eClaudia Gary\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTime and Other Solvents\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of poetry by Claudia Gary, reflecting on her youth and her family. Gary writes with craft; in symmetric verse and rhyme schemes. Her metier is the sonnet--the most graceful of all poetic forms. Even within this constraint, she creates delightful variation--breaking the first twelve lines not only into quatrains, but also triads and clusters of four and eight lines--sometimes even doubling those first twelve lines. But she unfailingly returns to the volta, with insight and wit. There is music in these lines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn example: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWrong-Way Driver\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI. Close Call\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReturning home at twilight from the store-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eyour baby safely strapped into her seat, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe main road not yet widened into four, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethen six lanes-in your northbound path you meet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etwo headlights. Is he crazy? Suicidal?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou swerve onto the shoulder but, for reasons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eunknown, you spin around. Your shrill recital\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof \"No!\" explodes the day, the night, the season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou don't know how you did it, but you land\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eacross the road, turned in the right direction, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estopped on the southbound shoulder. What calm hand\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehas helped? The baby slumbers in perfection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArriving home alarmed, you phone your parents: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou're still alive! The day before, you weren't.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eII. Adrenaline Speaks\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere on this shoulder is your place to watch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe wrong-way driver who missed killing you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStill in his wrong-lane, slow-motion approach, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einterior lights all lit, he barrels through\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eyour consciousness again. He can't be real.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe has the spirit of a broken brick\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethrowing itself against a porcelain wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe's grabbed your life and given it a kick.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWas this enough? Is this what was required\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto make you value each day as a gift, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eor will you linger on, stubbornly mired\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein everyday sensation till you drift\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edownstream leaving no more than alibi?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere on this shoulder is your place to cry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 23, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48330112139513,"sku":"9798999256874","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/nKG0EX0fpY9798999256874.webp?v=1777367137","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/time-and-other-solvents-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}