{"product_id":"forethought-daniel-mintie-9781732836488","title":"Forethought: Poems","description":"From the forward: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe world stands up.\u003c\/i\u003e The sentence points to something and is an instance of this something. The world stands up in the statement. Such is the nature of language, a natural occurrence, rising with the irises in April, the sandhill cranes in September.\u003cbr\u003e Any written word stands up first in the mind - thought being another natural occurrence. Early hominids devoted enormous amounts of precious energy to evolving a neocortex, home of human thought. As a result, mentation has become the dominant characteristic of our species. Most of us, most in the time, live first in a mental topography.\u003cbr\u003e The poems in this book are instances. Each points to a world standing up before our thinking, before our saying anything about it, to ourselves or anyone else. I hope reading them refreshes your experience of this world, as writing them has refreshed mine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Mintie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1732836485\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781732836488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e R. R. Bowker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.30d","brand":"Daniel Mintie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48442510704895,"sku":"9781732836488","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b344b875-0eee-41a4-a9b5-4312a10d0f02.jpg?v=1777197871","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/forethought-daniel-mintie-9781732836488","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}