{"product_id":"the-miraculous-courageous-paperback","title":"The Miraculous Courageous - 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\u003eJosh Booton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Miraculous Courageous\u003c\/em\u003e is a fractured epic, a sequence which seeks not to explain but to evoke the mind of one boy and his experience with autism. In the tradition of Carson's \u003cem\u003eAutobiography of Red\u003c\/em\u003e, Booton constructs a landscape both familiar and uncanny, a territory where our inner workings burn with the luminosity of jellyfish and \"darkness turns the lighthouse on.\" These poems are agile, slippery, glancing at the camera then quickly away, skewing the boundaries between lyric and monologue, vignette and scene. These poems are a bridge. And through their deft conflation of inner and outer worlds, the self and the other, \u003cem\u003eThe Miraculous Courageous\u003c\/em\u003e marks a rich and startling immersion in the mind of autism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this stunning sequence of sixty short monologues, Josh Booton sets a clock in motion, a minute hand that keeps lyric time, moving back and forth, outwards and inwards. The voice at its center belongs to a boy on the spectrum whose preoccupations with seahorses and Jacques Cousteau offer us glimpses of that \"secret blue little aqualung\" we call \u003cem\u003epoetic\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003ewonder.\u003c\/em\u003e Each perfect rectangle of verse becomes a porthole for the reader. A clear narrative progression extends its plumb-line into the dark glamour of those depths, into which the poet plunges to return with \"the whole day in one hand the night another.\" --Carolina Ebeid\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf, as Socrates asserts, philosophy begins in wonder, and if, as Emily Dickinson recommends, we do well to \"Tell all the truth but tell it slant,\" then the autistic speaker in Josh Booton's new collection \u003cem\u003eThe Miraculous Courageous\u003c\/em\u003e is equal parts philosopher and poet, wondering at such mysteries as the contrast between seemingly empty ocean and \"all \/ that life crowded so close\" around a reef, and slanting us such truths as that happiness \"smells exactly like tangerines\" and that one need not be lonely in a world astir \"with the rough of starfish \/ and rain on garbage can lids.\" --H. L. Hix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJosh Booton's first book, \u003cem\u003eThe Union of Geometry \u0026amp; Ash\u003c\/em\u003e, was awarded the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize. His work has been supported by grants from The University of Texas at Austin, the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation and the Elizabeth George Foundation. He lives in Boise, Idaho, where he works with children and teens with autism spectrum disorder as a pediatric speech therapist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.19 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 07, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53341454893363,"sku":"9781602354470","price":29.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/GMx7Cvmsxy9781602354470.webp?v=1778662393","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-miraculous-courageous-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}