{"product_id":"thread-9780811219211","title":"Thread","description":"Michael Palmer's new collection is structured in two parts, \"What I Did Not Say\" and \"Thread,\" subtitled \"Stanzas in Counterlight.\" It begins with a beautiful suite of poems featuring The Master of Shadows (first glimpsed in his 2006 collection \u003cem\u003eThe Company of Moths\u003c\/em\u003e). The counterlight of the title section shines in shafts of Palmer's ever-surprising ironic wit, which is given to sidelong parallel leaps. Several poems in \u003cem\u003eThread\u003c\/em\u003e directly address our endless wars, yet even in sorrow and rage the poems still glow with wonder. In multiphonic passages, voices speak from a decentered place, yet are grounded in the central rootedness of the whole history of poetry and culture that has gone before. In his new poems, signature palimpsests create complex cycles of thought, \"returning and returning\" via echoes to what he has called \"the layering process, the process of accretion and the process of emergence.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eSay \/ that whatever comes \/ goes. \/ \/\u003cbr\u003e The Shadow knows \/ nothing \/ such \/ \/\u003cbr\u003e His calling. \/ Round his \/ listing \/ \/\u003cbr\u003e House \/ the bindweed \/ grows.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/27\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811219211\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2011 pg. 89\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/16\/2011\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Michael Palmer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52051649986741,"sku":"9780811219211","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_12071138-1a58-446e-8566-2732830edaa0.jpg?v=1764047524","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/thread-9780811219211","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}