{"product_id":"the-place-of-the-solitaires-poems-from-titles-by-wallace-stevens-paperback","title":"The Place of the Solitaires: Poems from Titles by Wallace Stevens - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Surowiecki\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Place of the Solitaires\u003c\/i\u003e is John Surowiecki's fourteenth book of poetry. He is the recipient of the Poetry Foundation Pegasus Award for Verse Drama, the Pablo Neruda Prize, the Washington Prize, and the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. His novel \u003ci\u003ePie Man\u003c\/i\u003e won the Nilsen Literary Prize for a First Novel. L.A. Flammang writes that \u003ci\u003eThe Place of the Solitaires\u003c\/i\u003e \"speaks to our historical moment, evoking the pandemic, social reckoning, work, and loneliness. As always, Surowiecki engages big questions about aging, time, and mourning with no hint of sentimentality.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOther reviews: \u003cbr\u003e\"John Surowiecki uses Stevens' titles as a bird might use the tip of a branch, to spring more effortlessly into flight. These poems are finely nuanced meditations and lyric evocations. The Stevens title may remain as a wind that inflects the course of the poem which follows, but Surowiecki is clearly steering these poems to his own will and whim. The memories, the people, the daily incidents and accidents are all Surowiecki's, all rendered with graceful phrasings and the profound engagement of a poet who knows 'what thoughts have escaped him \/ and flown away-fly away still- \/ never rooted in speech'.\"\u003cbr\u003e-James Finnegan, former Poetry Editor, \u003ci\u003eThe Wallace Stevens Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Wallace Stevens looms large. Yet 'his river was never quite ours', Surowiecki asserts, and goes on to present a different Connecticut, a state of 'sidewalk milkweeds', city buses, shadowy bars, and most gloriously - ordinary, everyday people. These poems step out from Stevens's shadow and dazzle us with their light.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Shelley Puhak, author of \u003ci\u003eHarbinger\u003c\/i\u003e, a 2021 National Poetry Series selection.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 50\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.12 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 19, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51782556647712,"sku":"9781950066117","price":20.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/2e9b1a072e7ef22d6b19e88ef4e17fa5.webp?v=1780574030","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-place-of-the-solitaires-poems-from-titles-by-wallace-stevens-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}