{"product_id":"storm-toward-morning-9781556594724","title":"Storm Toward Morning","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"To be both visionary and accurate, true to physics and metaphysics at the same time, is rare and puts the poet in some rarefied company. Black, like a few other younger poets, is willing to include all the traditional effects of the lyric poem in his work, but he has set them going in new and lively ways, with the confidence of virtuosity and a belief in the ancient pleasures of pattern and repetition.\"--Mark Jarman, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLush and daring, Malachi Black's poems in \u003ci\u003eStorm Toward Morning\u003c\/i\u003e press all points along the spectrum of human positions, from sickness, isolation, and insomniac disarray to serenity, wonder, and spiritual yearning. Pulsing at the intersections of \"eye and I,\" body and mind, physical and metaphysical, Black brings distinctive voice, vision, and music to matters of universal mortal concern.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuery on Typography\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat is the light\u003cbr\u003einside the opening\u003cbr\u003eof every letter: white\u003cbr\u003ebehind the angles\u003cbr\u003eis a language bright\u003cbr\u003ebecause a curvature\u003cbr\u003eof space inside\u003cbr\u003ea line is visible\u003cbr\u003eis script a sign\u003cbr\u003eof what it does\u003cbr\u003eor does not occupy\u003cbr\u003escripture the covenant\u003cbr\u003eof eye and I\u003cbr\u003ewith word or what\u003cbr\u003ethe word defines\u003cbr\u003ewhich is source\u003cbr\u003eand which is shrine\u003cbr\u003ethe light of body\u003cbr\u003eor the light behind?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMalachi Black\u003c\/b\u003e holds a BA in literature from New York University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Texas at Austin's Michener Center for Writers. His poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eAGNI, Boston Review, Ploughshares, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePoetry.\u003c\/i\u003e He currently teaches at the University of San Diego and lives in California.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/18\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556594724\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Malachi Black","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43896902320309,"sku":"9781556594724","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_5e470f37-2126-46ad-8107-32522cc4cb53.jpg?v=1712632718","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/storm-toward-morning-9781556594724","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}