{"product_id":"time-billionaire-9781961451087","title":"Time Billionaire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn KG Newman's fifth collection of poems, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTime Billionaire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e is simultaneously in reverence of, and at war with, the clock. The book examines how time is our most important asset, and through the lenses of self-identity, love, fatherhood and the finite nature of being, how the memories we develop ultimately are our most precious commodity.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection is a counter-balance to smartphones, the fleeting feelings brought by our technology-driven lives and the impermanence of our closest relationships. It is the bottling of the alpenglow as sons outgrow gloves. Each poem presents a penny for every second left, and those pennies stack up into an infinite oil rig, jacked up way out in the ocean. Because when everything feels like a jumping hour, it's only natural to take our watches apart and hide their pieces around the house. It only feels right to drink the clepsydras dry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his effort to balance time and memory, and become a seed and the sun at once, Newman finds the wives we almost lost, and they're putting on lipstick again. He harnesses an hourglass on a string, spinning in the wind. He recognizes the grandfather clock as an elegant weapon, while concurrently putting the atomic clock in a half-nelson as he waits for a bird to fly by so he can turn it back into a fledgling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book, in its essence, is the place to save the prior minute's version of oneself and everything that's held dear: Pennies as memories scattered in a mirage off in the distance, and if you squint long and hard enough, they take the shape of a sequoia. It is a must-read for anyone who, through love and loss and a pure willpower to seep in beautiful small moments, lives a full existence to the creeping background sounds of a requiem score.\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 Bainbridge Island Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781961451087\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d","brand":"Kg Newman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44792590926005,"sku":"9781961451087","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_d6ce3e47-41cb-4a37-90d3-52fa84d6b4eb.jpg?v=1731426724","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/time-billionaire-9781961451087","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}