{"product_id":"renaming-the-streets","title":"Renaming the Streets","description":"Stone is not only a valuable physician, but a poet who is able to get his outstanding qualities of imagination and formal technique into a relationship that produces poems of great human value. - James Dickey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRenaming the Streets, \u003c\/i\u003eJohn Stone's third book of poems, is a work that speaks to the future but remains mindful of the endless intersection of the past and present. Stone writes about the human experience in all its seasons: if there is suffering, pain, loneliness, there is also love, mercy, humor, and, always, a sense of wonder. In \"\"Rosemary,\"\" Stone describes the vulnerability of a traveler who falls half in love with a coffee-shop waitress. When, in \"\"The Bass,\"\" a city clicker takes his son fishing and they unexpectedly catch a fish, there is not only high humor, but at the end, a sudden contemplative tone:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat fish won for us \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ea trophy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e which I keep here on my desk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e to remind me of that morning and of\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ehow unexpected the end may b\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ehow hungry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e how shining\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRenaming the Steets\u003c\/i\u003e is notable for its explorations within form: prose vignettes and a sonnet sequence are side by side. In the latter, the astonishing feats of the homing pigeon take on metaphorical depth:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIts house as handsome as a Henry Moore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e a prisoner in the rounded sleep of egg . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut then the chipping chisel of its beak, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e a burglar on the perfect inside job, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e and with a novice's display of cheek \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e what began as instinct ends as squab.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRenaming the Streets\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of cycles and circuits. The work is all of a piece, the voice that of a mature and meticulous craftsman, a distinguished presence in American poetry.","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55807328551256,"sku":"9780807112717","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/renaming-the-streets","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}