{"product_id":"the-way-it-was-paperback","title":"The Way it Was - 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\u003eA. M. Brandt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA. M. Brandt's fine and restless first book of poems, \u003ci\u003e The Way it Was, \u003c\/i\u003ehas a poem entitled, \"Ode to a View Through a Window with Fear of an Elegy Inside it.\" It encapsulates the particular urgency and timeliness of this book: we live in an unknowable and fearful era. These poems speak to our moment with a spirit that mixes ode and elegy so fully that it is neither possible nor desirable to tell them apart. What a gift this book is: a gift and a guide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJim Moore, author of \u003ci\u003eUnderground, New and Selected Poems, Invisible Strings, Lightning at Dinner, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Long Experience of Love \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrandt sees life's everydayness and makes it vibrant. Here we are reminded that small miracles beckon us to slow the pace; we are invited to see what can be spotted through the windows of our waiting. These poems are solace. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Doll, author of \u003ci\u003eBeckett and Myth: An Archetypal Approach \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems found here are profane and, therefore, apolitical. Many of them describe a life in which the narrator is identified by conventional strictures-feminist, modern, motherly, womanly, sexual, and lonely. The essence of the voice composes of all these things but poetically imagines not to be any of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Darren Morris, poet, and editor of \u003ci\u003eParhelion Literary Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 102\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.24 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 25, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53344346636595,"sku":"9781952326493","price":31.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/OAOo3LM1h09781952326493.webp?v=1778725109","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-way-it-was-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}