{"product_id":"coffee-for-meg-jonathan-cohen-9798901467046","title":"Coffee for Meg","description":"\u003cp\u003eJonathan Cohen is a natural storyteller with an eye for the lyrical moment: what he calls the \"irradiating gleam\" that can illuminate a \"secret world.\" He finds those gleams in diverse places: \u003cbr\u003ean empty RV camp in the Adirondacks; a summer wedding interrupted by a fire alarm; memories\u003cbr\u003eof a relative who played the horses and told the kids about knife fights. He is equally\u003cbr\u003ecomfortable ruminating on his own experiences or entering the mind of Sam Melville, a radical\u003cbr\u003ebomber from the 1960s, killed in the uprising at Attica. Alert to the music of the colloquial and\u003cbr\u003ethe subtle magic of the everyday, Cohen's poems are - like the Chet Baker songs he admires -\u003cbr\u003ewry, rueful, and enchanting.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eSam Magavern\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrimo Levi's Universe, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eOvid's Creek, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eNoah's Ark\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eCoffee for Meg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is a luminous collection brimming with lyrical language, vivid imagery, and sharp insight. It is both an elegy to the past and a reflection on the fragility of the present. Cohen's poems paint a world filled with ghosts and fragments of memory, revealing how the past shapes the present, often in moments we barely notice at the time, when fleeting experiences take on myth-like qualities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdele Evershed\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eTurbulence in Small Places, A History of Hand Thrown Walls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Cohen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798901467046\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelsay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/05\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 56\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d","brand":"Jonathan Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48066797994239,"sku":"9798901467046","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_31037fef-1025-40ee-887e-7446592ee28d.jpg?v=1768680582","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/coffee-for-meg-jonathan-cohen-9798901467046","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}