{"product_id":"fire-in-all-things","title":"Fire in All Things","description":"Selected by Richard Howard from almost one thousand entries, Stephen Yenser's \u003ci\u003eThe Fire in All Things \u003c\/i\u003eis the most recent recipient of the Walt Whitman Award, given annually by The Academy of American Poets to honor an outstanding collection of verse by an American poet who has not previously published a book-length collection. The poems in \u003ci\u003eThe Fire in All Things\u003c\/i\u003e are as intricate as vines that intertwine and twist around the trunk of a tree; yet high though the poems climb, each has its roots in the natural world, and in the heart. Ruins, architectural and emotional, fill these poems even as the language restores itself in puns, internal rhymes, and slant rhymes. The long poem \"\"Bertumnal\"\" begins with these lines:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClose call, close call, close call: this early in the morning\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The raucous crows' raw caws are ricochets off rock. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfloat on wire from a dead tree's branch a piece of charred limb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Repeats a finch that perched on it in its last life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere under the pergola, loaded with green wisteria, Misty air wistful with a few late lavender clusters,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLight falling in petal-sized spots across the notebook page\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e (Falling just now for instance on the phrase Light falling) . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fire in All Things\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a poet of mature talent, shrewdly observant of the world around him, possessed of a keen wit and a formidable command of the language.","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55807334908248,"sku":"9780807118283","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/fire-in-all-things","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}