{"product_id":"cruising-at-sixty-to-seventy-poems-and-essay-9781597095365","title":"Cruising at Sixty to Seventy: Poems and Essay","description":"\u003ci\u003eCruising at Sixty to Seventy\u003c\/i\u003e is the second book from award-winning poet Jim Tilley. In three sections--Dear Wife, Dear Self, Dear Friends--the speaker, a physicist and mathematician by education, now retired from a career on Wall Street, reflects on everyday experience, finding grace and drama in life's smaller moments. As in Tilley's debut collection, \u003ci\u003eIn Confidence\u003c\/i\u003e, many poems use ideas, problems, and puzzles from physics and mathematics to explore personal relationships, such as \"Particle and Wave,\" in which a fundamental concept from quantum mechanics becomes a metaphor for the ripples and collisions on the fabric of family life. The book ends with a personal essay, \"The Elegant Solution\" (originally published as a Ploughshares Solo), about Tilley's relationship with his father based on the language of mathematics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Red Hen Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781597095365\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.18h x 5.96w x 0.34d","brand":"Jim Tilley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53023696158901,"sku":"9781597095365","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9781597095365.jpg?v=1787666680","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/cruising-at-sixty-to-seventy-poems-and-essay-9781597095365","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}