{"product_id":"acrobatic-company-of-the-invisible","title":"Acrobatic Company of the Invisible","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eAcrobatic Company of the Invisible\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eGeorge Looney\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781930781634\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eCider Press Review\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2023\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003e Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2022 Cider Press Review Editors' Prize Book Award.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLola Haskins, author of \u003cem\u003eAsylum: Improvisations on John Clare\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), writes: \"In this collection, Looney dances as if no one were watching as he turns longing, sorrow, and loss into prayer. He has a gift for light--'Everything\/bejeweled this morning, as if remembered, ' 'this woman's bare shoulder\/illumined by a four-in-the-morning moon' --and an ear for birds--wrens, doves and starlings that sing baroque, and for the way, like them, a trapeze artist leaps into thin air. And if that weren't enough, he offers us such seemingly effortless phrases as 'the stink\/and nervous ruin of his cigarette, ' and 'the rush and stuttering of wings.' Go see the acrobats. You'll be glad you did.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"If George Looney's THE ACROBATIC COMPANY OF THE INVISIBLE beautifully offers for our consideration a series of meetings, of light and grass, of figures in a photograph, of instants of space and time, it is above all a study of missed connections, of one awake and one asleep, of distances between word and meaning, the present and the absent, a face and a memory. And yet finally, throughout these poems there is music, there are sparrows, a moon that comes and goes, and the grace to counterbalance loss and departure.\"--Nancy Eimers, author of \u003cem\u003eHuman Figures\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"George Looney has the uncanny ability to make readers smile while leading them through a valley littered with loss and a longing that 'haunts us more than the dead do.' Wryly observing that 'we keep [the dead] with us, still\/and outside time, ' Looney offers music as a source of consolation to both the living and the ghosts living among us: 'An ibis calls out this morning, \/its song something\/both the dead and the living love.' Looney chooses not to succumb to sorrow, and the birds he summons in these achingly beautiful poems become metaphors for faith--'the faith\/that lets sparrows leap into air.'--Nancy Naomi Carlson, author of \u003cem\u003eAn Infusion of Violets\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Cider Press Review","offers":[{"title":"Acrobatic Company of the Invisible | George Looney | Paperback | 9781930781634 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks H 1561779","offer_id":50583863001346,"sku":"1561779","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/61ciATYzarL.jpg?v=1791040057","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/acrobatic-company-of-the-invisible","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}