{"product_id":"where-we-lay-down-paperback-2","title":"Where We Lay Down - 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\u003eJeffery Franklin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhere We Lay Down\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is a significant achievement. These are multi-layered, thick, substantial poems that confront tough subjects: transformation, inheritance, deterioration, and our debt to the animal. As the Buddha said, \"Decay is inherent in all compounded things,\" and, as these poems show, all things are compounded. Written in a startling array of forms, from blank verse to free verse, sestina to pantoum, they are full of knowledge, and they always adapt the form to the language, rather than the other way around, changing the reader's notion of poetic form in the process.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-James Najarian, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Goat Songs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeffrey Franklin offers serious, nuanced, and often playful meditations on . . . what it is to be human in beautiful formal verses that make delicious use of our rich English word-hoard at every turn. It is the record of an intelligent quest for authenticity, and for how one manages \"Living Right\" at this particular moment in time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Sidney Wade, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeep Gossip, New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhere We Lay Down, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe poet's attention, like light-dapples, passes from parent to spouse to warfare to porcupine, transporting readers through a vivid past into an endless present. . . . \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ethough it is mid-morning, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eFranklin writes in \"Autumnal Equinox,\" \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe sun, \/ scattering its shipwreck's coins \/ on the sea-bottom beneath the crabapple, \/\/ shines with that dreamy quality of light \/ I know mid-afternoon will match precisely: \/ resolution balancing expectancy\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e It's a fitting coda for a powerful volume in which air merges with water, earth reveals itself as the once and future seafloor, treasure is born of terrible wreckage, and mid-morning is already mid-afternoon. This is a book of incantation and connection, offering both treasure and a hope of equinoctial balance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Catherine Carter, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eLarvae of the Nearest Stars\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeff Franklin's poems are brilliantly achieved and speak to us from a mind and heart that deeply know and feel the dimensions of the human condition - its capacity for empathy, joy, and inevitably, sorrow and loss. His poems help defend us against these aspects of mortality, making time our ally while we read, leaving us with a new hope alive in language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-James Applewhite, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime Beginnings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 27, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47352581488889,"sku":"9781954353954","price":25.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Mj4FdYAtJm9781954353954_a69f3e68-bfa4-4119-ad50-4483c270be95.webp?v=1769811406","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/where-we-lay-down-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}