{"product_id":"maier-jennifer-now-now","title":"Maier, Jennifer: Now, Now","description":"\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Pittsburgh Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: \u003cspan\u003eOctober 25, 2013\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Now, Now, Jennifer Maier's second poetry collection, time is of the essence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMoving with quantum ease through the porous membranes of the past, present, and future, the speaker wonders: What is each moment but the swirling confluence (or shy first meeting) of past and future--of what happened, and what-has-not-yet-happened but will?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSuch phenomenological questions are sparked by ordinary events: a friend's passion for jigsaw puzzles; an imagined conversation with a neighbor's dog; a meditation on the uses of modern poetry. Here, in language at once elegant and agile, intimate and universal, the author probes beneath the surface of happenstance, moving with depth, humor, and compassion into the heart of our shared predicament: that of loving what we cannot keep.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut if time in these poems is relative, it bends toward grace--even, as the title suggests, toward consolation. Taken together, the poems invite us to raise a glass to the way we're each \"held light and golden in Time's mouth,\" and to savor something of the eternal--distilled, sparkling, already lost--inside every now.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817199579159,"sku":"9780822962632","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/71pzCcyIxvL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1767997519","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/maier-jennifer-now-now","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}