{"product_id":"on-sunday-afternoons-paperback","title":"On Sunday Afternoons - 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\u003eRichard Becker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite its unassuming low-key title, \u003cem\u003eOn Sunday Afternoons\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of vividly stimulating surprises-whether of natural description, emotional understanding, or bristling with tactful literary reference. What I especially admire is how in poem after poem Becker startles a reader into refreshed appreciation of what we think of as the \"ordinary\" world. Ordinary yes, but extraordinary too in the near-haiku glimmer and glow with which the poet animates small corners of the natural world. In one poem \"Local plovers call-\/ and-answered\/ from the power poles;\" in another \"night animals' voices rise cantabile falsetto\/ in mock solemnity. She cranes her neck.\" (That Becker is also a musician-composer enriches his poetic brew.) \u003cem\u003eOn Sunday Afternoons\u003c\/em\u003e also contains longer meditations rich in human-often familial-feeling, or poems that lean into more surreal animations, or revisit a remembered Brooklyn: \"washed up on the shoals of the Gowanus.\" Lucid and musically realized, these poems emerge from what Becker calls \"This center of imagining,\" a place in which the \"bright sky\" of his own imagination is at home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Eamon Grennan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"a \u003cem\u003egorgeous \u003c\/em\u003ecollection... thoughtful, affecting, and compelling...filled with poems that are beautifully crafted, imaginative, moving.\"\u003cstrong\u003e-Jeffrey Levine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf \"Fates,\" \"[there's a] dense sensual feel of language [and its] frame is kept both various yet consistent. It's really a great size and shape, like they say-delightful!\"\u003cstrong\u003e-Robert Creeley\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 46\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.11 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 13, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52727422124339,"sku":"9781646628285","price":28.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/QUZqM0l0NzBNWUpUa2RNTXVjaWFTQT09.webp?v=1763755283","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/on-sunday-afternoons-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}