{"product_id":"a-penchant-for-masquerades-carolyn-martin-9781947021716","title":"A Penchant for Masquerades","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the universal to the personal, the formal to the experimental, Carolyn Martin's fourth poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eA Penchant for Masquerades\u003c\/em\u003e, takes an unflinching look at the fluidity of truth, time, identity, history, death, and relationships.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMartin time-travels with Neanderthals, Lucy, and Big Foot to 9\/11 to the future collapse of a holographic universe. She mines scientific discoveries, nursery rhymes, biblical characters, and the works of Issa, Horace, Yeats, Frost, Williams, Szymborska, and Collins in poems that are both playful and thought-provoking.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSince she believes reincarnation is a distinct possibility, she suggests that death need not be taken too seriously (\"Re-Entry Interview,\" \"A Case for Sudden Death\"). She riffs on an Issa haiku (\"Thoughts on a Translation\"), sits down to dinner with Horace (\"Notes from a Water Drinker\"), and promises literary revenge on a reviewer who negatively critiques this collection (\"To the Reviewer Who Missed Too Much\").\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMartin's forms run the gamut from sonnets, haiku, and pantoums to free verse, found poetry, and paratactic poems whose stanzas can be read in any order. A lover of language, she builds poems based on one word (\"Phonaethetics,\" \"Disambiguation,\" \"Stirring\"), and delights in re-stitching the words of others in surprising ways (\"Variations on Final Words,\" \"10 Variations on the 50 Most Quoted Lines of Poetry,\" \"90+ Titles Appropriated from Poetry 180 Hosted by Billy Collins\").\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA lover of all things poetic, Martin has created an eclectic collection for readers who have a penchant for words and who are open to believing in everything and nothing.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carolyn Martin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1947021710\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781947021716\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Unsolicited Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/12\/2019\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 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d","brand":"Carolyn Martin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48486455902463,"sku":"9781947021716","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_45bf67ae-5707-4182-a4ff-3caef43a3c53.jpg?v=1778055561","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-penchant-for-masquerades-carolyn-martin-9781947021716","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}