{"product_id":"the-algorithm-of-i-9781638483243","title":"The Algorithm of I","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Algorithm of I is Jack Crocker's\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esecond collection of poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Algorithm of I, Jack Crocker holds\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eup a mirror to the human condition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhose reflections, while intensely personal, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eare timeless in their search for an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eessential self. Thinking of the three great\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand simple images in whose presence the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eartist's heart first opened-\"the gospel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewomb of Delta dirt,\" his \"father's walls,\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eor \"Linda Boykin's lips\"-the speaker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etracks himself in the multiple selves\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eorbiting the center.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe chronology suggests a constant state\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof becoming. From the \"ancestral prison\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof birth to being \"Programmed between\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe contradiction of predestination and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe hubris of free,\" imagination becomes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe way to reconcile life's painful disequilibrium\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebetween the aspirations of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehope and inevitable concessions to despair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile every leaf may be \"a tongue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof grief,\" \"spring revives the beauty of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edeath.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut like \"spiraled genes a Monet has\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elaced,\" it is less sadness that draws us to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethese poems than the osmosis of intelligence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand heart that shines through so\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebrilliantly. Like his hero Sisyphus, \"step\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby completed step,\" the poet's revenge is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estronger than his rock, giving and vitalizing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompelled to make art out of \"the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eseeing of doubt\" he arrives at cautious\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehope as \"The battered atoms of the heart\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ego on arranging themselves\/in the possibility\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof human love and revolt,\" seeking\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etruth \"in the light of pretend.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Western New Mexico University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/14\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781638483243\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d","brand":"Jack Crocker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43271910719669,"sku":"9781638483243","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_8e99dc6c-a1e8-4b8f-a5bc-8718bea5ba81.jpg?v=1699958580","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-algorithm-of-i-9781638483243","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}