{"product_id":"on-time-poems-2005-2014-paperback","title":"On Time: Poems 2005-2014 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoanne Kyger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe last major collection from one of the most significant poets of the SF Renaissance.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Time\u003c\/i\u003e is Joanne Kyger's first full-length collection of poetry in nearly a decade. Beginning in 2005, in the throes of the endless wars of the Bush administration, and proceeding chronologically to 2014, \u003ci\u003eOn Time\u003c\/i\u003e may be seen as the day book of a master poet, moving between the personal and the political, the natural and the spiritual in a restless quest for sanity. Reflecting her practice of Zen Buddhism, and her long engagement with environmentalism, \u003ci\u003eOn Time\u003c\/i\u003e is a profound examination of contemporary culture from a perspective of wisdom and maturity, permeated with righteous indignation and fierce criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eOn Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOn Time\u003c\/i\u003e offers exquisite panoramic views of eternity. It reads like an early morning drive up the coast with sunlight showing through the branches. Joanne's words gain a perfect stillness hanging in the air. They sound in our mind then dissolve to a hairline edge. Glide with the turn. Get blown away. There is no greater voice in American poetry.\"--\u003cb\u003eCedar Sigo\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Oh reader, you can just relax and spend hour upon hour inside Joanne Kyger's \u003ci\u003eOn Time, Poems 2005-2014\u003c\/i\u003e, for oodles of pleasure and line-fun! Kyger beautifully observes her life and times. She's realistic, yet graceful and good-willed, annotating herself, her friends and acquaintances, while definitely saying no to Sartre's dictum, 'hell is other people.' What a graceful, complicated and wonderful book!\"--\u003cb\u003eEd Sanders\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Like the double meaning of the title, Kyger's poems speak to the phenomenological--both to the observations of the state of being and to one's own placement in the world. Her poems ' step \/ about entering into an agreement \/ with the page of the moment'. Working elegantly, tone by tone, her poems are by turns political, pointed, intimate, humorous, ordinary, and profound. Here you will find instructive or incriminating dreams, world affairs, human frailties, friends that come and go, wisdom and whimsy. Visually sculpted, rich in mood movement, provocative and pleasurable, these are poems like the moon: illuminating, in transit, stately, and enduring.\"--\u003cb\u003eHoa Nguyen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the major poets of the SF Renaissance, Joanne Kyger was born in 1934 in Vallejo, CA. After studying at UC Santa Barbara, she moved to San Francisco in 1957, where she became a member of the circle of poets around Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan. In 1960, she joined Gary Snyder in Japan. They then traveled to India where, along with Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, they met the Dalai Lama. She returned to California in 1964 and published her first book, \u003ci\u003e The Tapestry and the Web\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1965. In 1969, she settled in Bolinas, where she continues to reside today. She has published over 30 books of poetry and prose, including \u003ci\u003eThe Japan and India Journals: 1960-1964\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), \u003ci\u003eOn Time: Poems 2005-2014\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), \u003ci\u003eAs Ever: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), and \u003ci\u003eAbout Now: Collected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), which won the 2008 Josephine Miles Award from PEN Oakland. She died in 2017 in Bolinas, CA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 126\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.4 x 7.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 14, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758108836128,"sku":"9780872866805","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0d7f67cc958742d6a9b4ce035210d821.webp?v=1780118219","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/on-time-poems-2005-2014-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}