{"product_id":"a-walking-cliche-coins-a-phrase-9781891386374","title":"A Walking Cliche Coins a Phrase","description":"\"A Walking Cliche Coins a Phrase is an utterly unique book of poems. Despite the subtitle, this is a book of poems, filled with true wit (strange things go on in this man's head ), strong music, a stone blind love (the only kind of love that matters) of language, and a wild, wild heart.\"\u003cbr\u003e Thomas Lux, author of God Particles \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The road to psychic wholeness, Chad Prevost asks, is to 'bury oneself in sweetness like a bee making Heaven in a fallen pear?' In these marvelously inventive prose poems, Prevost does just that, chronicling the journey of a man facing the false dichotomy of a world that pits spirit against flesh, what is 'risen' against what has 'fallen.' Like Mircea Eliade's The Sacred and the Profane, Prevost locates a new site for the sacred that refuses either pole of a suffocating binary, choosing a reciprocity of the spiritual and mundane. These poems are guided by the healing power of attention-to family, culture, and especially the quirks and curves that guide us crookedly home. We experience a questioning speaker raised by a pastor father; a young man who worships Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant; an adult who realizes he is 'just visiting this planet, ' proclaiming 'Wherever you go there you are'; and a husband who compares a birthmark on the buttock of the beloved to 'the shape of Venezuela or Mongolia, ' concluding that 'there is the history the world knows and the one forever hidden from view.' It is this secret\/sacred sight that treats everything with tenderness and care, particularly the profundity of love. 'Be wary of the thing you love, ' Prevost says. 'Tread lightly, with the deference of one approaching a god.' Chad Prevost has written a powerful and deeply humane book of prose poems that merges the imaginative possibilities of the poem with the day-to-day paragraphs of our lives.\" \u003cbr\u003e George Kalamaras, author of Gold, Carp, Jack, Fruit, Mirrors \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Plain View Press, LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781891386374\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.17d","brand":"Chad Prevost","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42769849516213,"sku":"9781891386374","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_4dc8cd47-a4b8-4d98-8e85-7f06402f4175.jpg?v=1678839044","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-walking-cliche-coins-a-phrase-9781891386374","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}