{"product_id":"the-invention-of-dreaming-paperback","title":"The Invention of Dreaming - 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\u003eEd Ruzicka\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eADVANCE PRAISE FOR ED RUZICKA\u003c\/p\u003e\"Between hard times and heartfelt delight, Ed Ruzicka's latest collection of poems \u003cem\u003eThe Invention of Dreaming\u003c\/em\u003e finds a way to brim with hope. This book seduces the heart and mind with surrealistic revelations of a pandemic and the starkness passage of seasons where brotherhood and healing coexist with heartache and \"the cleansing release of dreaming.\" We pass through \"nagging reflections, worse than a houseful of aunts\" to find a world where the poet urges us to \"Honor everything we hear, smell, see, taste or touch,\" and to not let even a brother's death diminish \"the least of our acts.\" Ruzicka uses a jazz pianist's arpeggios, bird songs and the wind to create an anthem full of compassion and humanity.\"\u003cp\u003e-Mona Lisa Saloy, Louisiana Poet Laureate (2021- 2023) and author of \u003cem\u003eBlack Creole Chronicles\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Ed Ruzicka's \u003cem\u003eThe Invention of Dreaming\u003c\/em\u003e witnesses' extraordinary acts of compassion in poems that honor common experiences that poets often ignore. His vocation here, as in his day-job, is care. These are the poems that William Carlos Williams asked for: hands-on, tender but unflinching, written at the balance-point of celebration and elegy.\"\u003cp\u003e-Rodney Jones, winner of the Harper Lee Award in 2003 and the prestigious Kingsley-Tufts Award and author of \u003cem\u003eTransparent Gestures\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSalvation Blues\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"In the Covid and post-Covid landscape of these poems, Ed Ruzicka shows us by poem-after-poem how the world goes on but can be transformed by our love and concern for one another. This densely textured book is healing. Read \u003cem\u003eThe Invention of Dreaming\u003c\/em\u003e to go on surviving your life in our fractured times.\"\u003cp\u003e-Peter Cooley, Louisiana Poet Laureate 2015-2017, Professor Emeritus. Tulane University, author of \u003cem\u003eAccounting for the Dark\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 108\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 10, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53299673006387,"sku":"9781947175327","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/29Yw7_jpZn9781947175327.webp?v=1777452821","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-invention-of-dreaming-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}