{"product_id":"a-penance-cj-evans-9781936970100","title":"A Penance","description":"Poetry. \"There is an uneasy tenderness to C. J. Evans's A PENANCE. His poems trouble desire, they trouble the world ('The world is furious and I'm so tired \/ of being furious with it.') until it fractures into the sort of captivating music a modern day Orpheus might sing: 'they know I'll end in their arms, and how tenderly \/ they'll rip my body.' Evans articulates the violence as well as the beauty of passion with a style that is assured and impressionistic, haunting and precise. He is a magnificent poet. This is a magnificent debut.\" Terrance Hayes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The elegantly armored, brutally beautiful poems that make up A PENANCE call to mind Wallace Stevens's description of imaginative nobility as 'a violence from within that protects us from a violence without.' They present a psyche no less troubled by the ruthlessness of reality than by its own strong appetite for escapism the work of a mind that thinks 'it's striking \/ how much dark there is \/\/ in this world that houses \/ diamonds and rivers' even as it questions its own 'wish for a pillowed world \/\/ where we slip into \/ each others' arms and then let fall.' That Evans is able to convert such turmoil into complex, sonically rich, wide-awake and insightful poems is a testament not only to his artistry as a poet (it is immense) but also, ultimately, to an almost miraculous sense of hope.\" Timothy Donnelly\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cj Evans\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1936970104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781936970100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Issues Poetry and Prose\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.90w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/25\/2012 pg. 148","brand":"Cj Evans","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519662108927,"sku":"9781936970100","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f0e3b876-b280-4186-8533-60211e916fc6.jpg?v=1778738078","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-penance-cj-evans-9781936970100","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}