{"product_id":"flight-risk-db-jonas-9781639806812","title":"Flight Risk: Poems and Translations","description":"DB Jonas' poems feature a graceful intelligence. This carefully crafted literature of attention springs from penetrating analysis of everyday experience informed by an extensive reading life. Resonances of Dante and Rousseau, Fitzgerald, Stevens, and so many others are woven into meditations that explore the complexities of sensation, perception, time and memory. The poetry of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlight Risk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how these all combine to produce impressions that linger, images \"that yet \/ fresh images beget\" upon the page and in the reader's mind.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Acquisto\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Vermont, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoetry's Knowing Ignorance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether through the narrow lanes of a Moroccan town, or following \"the clacking heel, \/ the slender foot, the measured step\" of a seminal poet through the corridors of her poetry, the poems of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlight Risk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e are invitations. They invite us to contemplate the exotic character of the \"distant world\" we live in, someplace far beyond \"the one we think in.\" My favorite among DB Jonas' provocative titles is \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eKnowledge is Always Carnal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003epage after page, he substantiates this claim, and however far from home their insights and imagery may deposit us, his poems keep us firmly grounded in poetic tradition, always within earshot of Rilke, Yeats, or the Chinese Classics. \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlight Risk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e never fails to endow the insubstantial with substance, and to pulse with the lived life, in which, as Eliot wrote, \"approach to the meaning restores the experience.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohnny Payne\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eMidnight Sutra\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eOstraca\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeaven of Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eVassal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlight Risk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e reads like a meditation, a musing at the crossroads-always erudite and darkly baroque. The language of its poetry carries you as music or water does. Just as stepping into a river for a second time will present to us a different river and a different self, every rereading of these poems will offer up new music. Each time through, the work surprises us with its richness, with new layers of meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnna Potter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, founding editor of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Amphibian Literary and Art Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Db Jonas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1639806814\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639806812\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelsay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/20\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 146\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 0.34d","brand":"Db Jonas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46739276562687,"sku":"9781639806812","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_539b53a0-2660-4ad7-a5a4-57d425752bc7.jpg?v=1743277729","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/flight-risk-db-jonas-9781639806812","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}