{"product_id":"i-carry-a-hammer-in-my-pocket-for-occasions-such-as-these-9781929918904","title":"I Carry a Hammer in My Pocket for Occasions Such as These","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Reading Anthony Tognazzini is like having a surprise party thrown in your honor on every page. \u003ci\u003eI Carry A Hammer In My Pocket For Occasions Such As These\u003c\/i\u003e turns cartwheels, plants daisies, and sings love songs in honor of all that is strange, sad, serious, and sublime about being alive.\"--Myla Goldberg, author of \u003ci\u003eBee Season\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eI Carry A Hammer In My Pocket For Occasions Such As These\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of fifty-seven pieces that range in length from compressed paragraphs to ten-page stories. Characters, voices, and surreal scenarios are unified in a playful vision of the world sustained by metaphor, memory, cartoon, tragedy, love story, and song.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpeed and brevity are a large part of the collection's design. In a culture where attention spans are shorter and more fractured, the need for a literature for the subway and the waiting room--something to resonate in the smaller gaps of our lives--is emerging. To this end, \u003ci\u003eI Carry A Hammer In My Pocket For Occasions Such As These\u003c\/i\u003e is quick, colloquial, and comic, yet challenges readers to think. It offers--at a glance--a journey into a fictional world that is poetic and narrative, fantastic and familiar, accessible and adventurous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Difference\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlthough I was never an early riser, my father always counseled me to rise with the sun.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"Early bird gets the worm \" he told me.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"Sure,\" I said, \"but the worm who sleeps late, lives.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAnthony Tognazzini\u003c\/b\u003e lives in New York City, where he makes his living as a teacher and freelance journalist. His awards include an AWP Award, an Academy of American Poets prize, a Greer Artist Foundation Fellowship, and a Hemingway Fellowship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e BOA Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781929918904\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.96h x 7.12w x 0.42d","brand":"Anthony Tognazzini","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36670826479772,"sku":"9781929918904","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ac4fe691-8615-4031-a71a-536b61639a43.jpg?v=1603923718","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/i-carry-a-hammer-in-my-pocket-for-occasions-such-as-these-9781929918904","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}