{"product_id":"conversations-with-quij-te-a-poets-decades-long-quest-to-reconcile-his-ideal-love-affair-with-reality-9781632932914","title":"Conversations with Quijóte: A Poet's Decades-Long Quest to Reconcile His Ideal Love Affair with Reality","description":"\u003cp\u003e Love is the most consequential of all human emotions. To experience it is elation; to express it is to speak from the heart; to receive it, the finest moment; to lose it, the worst day; and to write about it is poetry. This book is a literary quest for love in its most idyllic form and the author's journey, as a young man, to reconcile the love he discovers with reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Using verse and prose in contrasting styles in collaboration with his imaginary sixteenth century mentor, the famous Don Quij te de La Mancha, the author explores the depth and breadth of love in a literary style quite unlike most anthologies of poetry. Set in the late 1960s, the poet's work explores a succession of romantic relationships influenced, pointedly, by the \"love generation,\" its freedoms, imagination and contradictions. As the author describes it, \"it's a series of love stories told, day by day, in a most unique and lyrical way.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e While the pace, distractions and complexities of present-day America lessen our ability to be in love, \u003cem\u003eConversations with Quij te\u003c\/em\u003e reawakens the reader to the sensations and sensibilities of true romance, its rewards and consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Love is the most consequential of all human emotions. To experience it is elation; to express it is to speak from the heart; to receive it, the finest moment; to lose it, the worst day; and to write about it is poetry. This book is a literary quest for love in its most idyllic form and the author's journey, as a young man, to reconcile the love he discovers with reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Using verse and prose in contrasting styles in collaboration with his imaginary sixteenth century mentor, the famous Don Quij te de La Mancha, the author explores the depth and breadth of love in a literary style quite unlike most anthologies of poetry. Set in the late 1960s, the poet's work explores a succession of romantic relationships influenced, pointedly, by the \"love generation,\" its freedoms, imagination and contradictions. As the author describes it, \"it's a series of love stories told, day by day, in a most unique and lyrical way.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sunstone Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/25\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781632932914\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.74d","brand":"Arturo Lewis Jaramillo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37890670592181,"sku":"9781632932914","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_57400a24-812a-4f6d-9bf0-8a856de8a64d.jpg?v=1607657804","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/conversations-with-quij-te-a-poets-decades-long-quest-to-reconcile-his-ideal-love-affair-with-reality-9781632932914","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}