{"product_id":"a-meal-like-that-albert-garcia-9780989872454","title":"A Meal Like That","description":"With his uncommon common sense, Albert Garcia makes readers stop and pay attention. Again and again reading this collection I found myself halted by the simple astuteness of an observation, \"before I knew love is pain \/ wrapped in shining paper . . . .\" His unlikely choices of words or images often seem somehow exactly correct, once his context is studied, \"your hair plumed like ink from a squid.\" Best of all, an ongoing sense of wonder at life itself pervades these singular expressions of mortality and more. -Gerald Haslam, author of Coming of Age in California and Grace Period With extraordinary attentiveness to the world around us, Albert Garcia explores the important questions: How to find equilibrium in a universe where Isaiah's wolf and lamb do not dwell peacefully beside each other-where \"just the idea of standing on a volcano's shoulder...makes you brace for balance\"-where awareness means accepting the fragility and underside of each moment. I am grateful for Garcia's wise, humane and wide-awake look into these complexities-of daily life, of marriage, of personal and global history-that enlarges us with its insightful and compassionate clarity. --Susan Kelly-DeWitt, author of The Fortunate Islands Who wouldn't love A Meal Like That, a moment we look back on when the complexities of our family life and our own often-bewildering inner life mingle at a table, and we are happy and sated, if sometimes a bit unsettled? Over the years, Albert Garcia has become a master at isolating such intimate, revealing moments of wonder, and then evoking them in his well-crafted and graceful poems. In this collection, those moments are divided between memories of a boy growing up on a ranch in the Sacramento Valley and those of a young family man living in that same valley. His voice is quiet and his word choices are unpretentious, but make no mistake, this is a poet who offers up the best fare, poems that satisfy and that will endure. Take a place at the table, and may we offer you \"Cussing in the 4th Grade,\" \"Dig,\" \"Early Morning, Studying Art,\" or a little \"November Task\"? -Gary Thompson, author of One Thing After Another\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Albert Garcia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0989872459\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780989872454\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brick Road Poetry Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.31d","brand":"Albert Garcia","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44522281337087,"sku":"9780989872454","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_30004175-8467-4e46-84e9-0813952e4bf7.jpg?v=1700156461","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-meal-like-that-albert-garcia-9780989872454","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}