{"product_id":"carnations-poems-9780691149455","title":"Carnations: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Anthony Carelli's remarkable debut, \u003ci\u003eCarnations\u003c\/i\u003e, the poems attempt to reanimate dead metaphors as blossoms: wild and lovely but also fleeting, mortal, and averse to the touch. Here, the poems are carnations, not only flowers, but also body-making words. Nodding to influences as varied as George Herbert, Francis Ponge, Fernando Pessoa, and D. H. Lawrence, Carelli asserts that the poet's materials--words, objects, phenomena--are sacred, wilting in the moment, yet perennially renewed. Often taking titles from a biblical vocabulary, \u003ci\u003eCarnations\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us that unremarkable places and events--a game of Frisbee in a winter park, workers stacking panes in a glass factory, or the daily opening of a café--can, in a blink, be new. A short walk home is briefly transformed into a cathedral, and the work-worn body becomes a dancer, a prophet, a muse.\u003cbr\u003e______ \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eCarnations\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003cbr\u003eTHE PROPHETS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnthony Carelli\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA river. And if not the river nearby, then a dream\u003cbr\u003eof a river. Nothing happens that doesn't happen\u003cbr\u003ealong a river, however humble the water may be. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTake Rowan Creek, the trickle struggling to lug\u003cbr\u003eits mirroring across Poynette, wherein, suspended, \u003cbr\u003eso gentle and shallow, I learned to walk, bobbing \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eat my father's knees. Later, whenever we tried\u003cbr\u003eto meander on our inner tubes, we'd get lodged\u003cbr\u003eon the bottom. Seth, remember, no matter how we'd \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ekick and shove off, we'd just get lodged again?\u003cbr\u003eAt most an afternoon would carry us a hundred feet\u003cbr\u003etoward the willows. We'd piss ourselves on purpose \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ejust to feel the spirits of our warmth haloing out.\u003cbr\u003eAnd once, two bald men on the footbridge, bowing\u003cbr\u003ein the sky, stared down at us without a word.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691149455\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.15w x 0.24d","brand":"Anthony Carelli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41071640117429,"sku":"9780691149455","price":11.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b11fe4b7-1f6c-46e8-b769-15ea500fa144.jpg?v=1632232102","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/carnations-poems-9780691149455","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}