{"product_id":"flicker-rob-budde-9781897109052","title":"Flicker","description":"\u003cp\u003eCall it what you will -- the short-short story, the prose poem, micro-fiction -- accomplished poet, anthologist and novelist Rob Budde uses the form to convey glimpses of narrative and character, or story, through the intense personal imagery of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlicker\u003c\/i\u003e is made up of short prose pieces, many with the emotional intensity of lyric poems. While a narrative arc penetrates the pieces and binds many of them together, the tightly constructed language and profoundly personal imagery tell another story, the emotional heartbeat that lives beneath language. A young man's summer in the bush becomes a dark, frightening and mysterious meditation on the meaning of wood. The old man for whom he works is seen through the narrator's eyes becoming a gnarled relic of the forest, the tree as human. These stories of youth and experience lure the reader in through plot and characterization using the subjective immediacy of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rob Budde\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1897109059\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781897109052\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Signature Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Rob Budde","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46807023091967,"sku":"9781897109052","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f69943e9-815f-4898-a703-ead84be7947c.jpg?v=1745378339","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/flicker-rob-budde-9781897109052","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}