{"product_id":"a-patient-desire-timothy-nonn-9780692842720","title":"A Patient Desire: New Poems","description":"This first gathering of lyrical works from poet Tim Nonn's journey into his oncoming blindness is sometimes beautiful, other times astonishingly wise. When he says 'going blind\/is another way\/of seeing\/the heart clearly, ' he accepts the dare of kinship with Rumi and Basho, Roethke and Bly, a lineage of mystics and, perhaps ironically, seers. His unrhymed quatrains, deceptively simple, are fully armed with axioms: 'knowing is impossible\/you must feel your way\/into your heart\/and get lost.' And his mastery of simple means as an approach to the ineffable is always in effect, as when 'in the presence\/of a tree\/stillness\/is a conversation' or 'an evening song\/of a bird facing darkness\/had the lonely clarity\/of one in love with light.' One in love with the light indeed. Here Tim Nonn welcomes you and it is likely you will find yourself happily entranced\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Timothy Nonn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0692842721\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780692842720\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McCaa Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.38d","brand":"Timothy Nonn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437985837311,"sku":"9780692842720","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c3232f2c-7139-4778-96b5-51c97c6a21b8.jpg?v=1777168019","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-patient-desire-timothy-nonn-9780692842720","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}