{"product_id":"quixote-contemplates-retirement-paperback","title":"Quixote Contemplates Retirement - 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\u003eLew Maltby\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLew Maltby's evocative chapbook, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuixote Contemplates Retirement, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e invites us on a journey of scintillating, sensual, and edgy adventures to exotic places where \"hawk-eyed men with cobras\/drift you eyeless\/toward the point of no return,\" to \"Just another punch-card day in the justice factory, to 3,000 feet above a doll house landscape, to adrift on a sea of moon-white skin.\" Maltby's imagery is vivid and fresh. The voice is a wonderful combination of bold, tender, funny, biting and kind. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd the Boomer generation is uniquely remembered as a time when \"we were Carefree puppies\/ playing in the gun barrel of history until four shrouded messengers \/from Ohio reveal our parents' true first love.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Doris Ferleger, MFA, Ph.D., author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo Claim Loneliness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his new book of poems, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuixote Contemplates Retirement, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eLew Maltby is gently amused at life, at people who return like ghosts \"of Christmas yet to come\/from which no good deed can save\" us. He allows us to smile at his mother who was \"quieter than the rest of us, \/shorter too\" and to watch his daughter Julia, \"a wild pony\" whom he asks, \"When you break the tape and win the ribbon, \/ will the color match your eyes?\" He knows catching a marlin, like so many of our attacks on windmills, is a \"Momentary triumph.\" The poems are fresh and poignant, crafted and succinct. Whether he takes us with him to Marrakech to see \"hawk-eyed men with cobras\" or on a parachute jump, \"Step blind into a whoosh\/of dark tunnel,\" we emerge at the end of our reading as \"a milkweed in timeless blue.\" A book to read in one sitting and then again, poem by sustaining poem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Lois Marie Harrod, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eFragments from the Biography of Nemesis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLew Maltby's unique perspective, from the halls of lefty and legal justice, makes for compelling poetry. Sometimes tongue-in-cheek and sometimes deadly serious, the poems offer both personal narratives and his take on the news of the day. As Maltby testifies, \"Some write flowers.\/I choose blood.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Ellen Foos, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Remaining Ingredients\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 38\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.08 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 26, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54054657851699,"sku":"9781639805105","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/9U3fpJgfhQ9781639805105.webp?v=1789030336","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/quixote-contemplates-retirement-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}