{"product_id":"60-cent-coffee-and-a-quarter-to-dance-paperback","title":"60 Cent Coffee and a Quarter to Dance - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJudy Jordan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing her critically acclaimed first book of poetry, Carolina Ghost Woods, Judy Jordan here returns to a time in her life when she was homeless and working as a pizza deliverer at a Greek immigrant--owned restaurant. She absorbs the life experiences and unmet dreams of her coworkers, the parking lot prostitutes, and the other homeless with whom she shares coffee refills and the warmth of the bus station terminal. Their voices, along with Jordan's, come together in a haunting chorus that bears witness to the misery of poverty in the richest country in the world.Childhood abuse, drug use, violence, disease, and war enter into many of the stories that form this collective tale. Sometimes broken and eerie, sometimes lyrical and beautiful, and other times quirkily humorous, the poems gain an added edginess by the use of fixed forms and the re-imagining of the sonnet in the mouths of the twentieth century's wounded and alienated. Ultimately, Jordan explores the place of beauty, verse, and narrative in helping to move us into a future in which everyone's story is told.Tell me Chris are there nights long after the sun's\u003cbr\u003eyolk has broken across the mountains' blue ridge\u003cbr\u003ewhen time becomes so bold it crawls its way\u003cbr\u003efrom hibernation and shimmies naked\u003cbr\u003eand shivering to the trees' highest branches, \u003cbr\u003ewhen the river weeps so loud and long\u003cbr\u003ethe fish choke on their own old sorrows, \u003cbr\u003ewhen the wild onions close their eyes one by one\u003cbr\u003eand the Queen Anne's Lace fold up\u003cbr\u003etheir blood-spotted handkerchiefs\u003cbr\u003eand lie down in ditch weed and sorrel the final time, \u003cbr\u003enights when the steel band of your ribs tightens\u003cbr\u003eand your hands go cold, nights when you know\u003cbr\u003eyou will never see Greece again. Never.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJudy Jordan 's first book of poetry, Carolina Ghost Woods, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award, the Thomas Wolfe Literary Award, the Oscar Arnold Young Book Prize of the Poetry Council of North Carolina, and the Utah Book of the Year Award for Poetry. She teaches at Southern Illinois University, in Carbondale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 64\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.25 x 9.14 x 6.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52726433644851,"sku":"9780807129968","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/UnhueDBsR0UzdEUyWTNzakhnVEc5UT09.webp?v=1763737196","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/60-cent-coffee-and-a-quarter-to-dance-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}