{"product_id":"in-no-hurry-michael-carrino-9781954353770","title":"In No Hurry","description":"Michael Carrino's collection \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn No Hurry\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eechoes Italo Calvino's dictum that good writing \"hurries slowly.\" These poems pause to consider, relish, and articulate historical and personal moments before they pass. The center of Carrino's poems is an off-beat mystery and solitude - 'a quiet stillness' and sometimes quiet horror - whether about the found grace after the nuclear bombing of Japan or the silence of Greenwich Village during the pandemic. His poems hold fragile moments against the swift current of time. Carrino's poems mediate on experience; imagine other lives, the passing of seasons, landscape, light, lost birds, or simply express the stillness of a lived life while savoring white tea on a moonlit night. The poems escape preciousness; the language is direct and his humour wry. They hold the moment and balance perception like a good photograph.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Carmelo Militano, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eCatching Desire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eMorning After You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn one of these poems, the speaker stands before a painting titled \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Field of All Possibility, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e below whose quiet surface an image seems just about to rise, and it holds the speaker in long contemplation despite the bustle of other viewers around him. Carrino offers the reader a similar experience - moments of reverie that hold fragments of past or imagined events, and small still-lives captured briefly, gracefully, as though with a calligraphic brush. Clearly this work has provided its author, and now us, with some stay against \"the inevitable commotion\" to which we have become all too accustomed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Leslie Ullman, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe You That All Along Has Housed You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary of Small\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHappiness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Carrino's collection \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn No Hurry\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eechoes Italo Calvino's dictum that good writing \"hurries slowly.\" These poems pause to consider, relish, and articulate historical and personal moments before they pass. The center of Carrino's poems is an off-beat mystery and solitude - 'a quiet stillness' and sometimes quiet horror - whether about the found grace after the nuclear bombing of Japan or the silence of Greenwich Village during the pandemic. His poems hold fragile moments against the swift current of time. Carrino's poems mediate on experience; imagine other lives, the passing of seasons, landscape, light, lost birds, or simply express the stillness of a lived life while savoring white tea on a moonlit night. The poems escape preciousness; the language is direct and his humour wry. They hold the moment and balance perception like a good photograph.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Carmelo Militano, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eCatching Desire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eMorning After You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn one of these poems, the speaker stands before a painting titled \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Field of All Possibility, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e below whose quiet surface an image seems just about to rise, and it holds the speaker in long contemplation despite the bustle of other viewers around him. Carrino offers the reader a similar experience - moments of reverie that hold fragments of past or imagined events, and small still-lives captured briefly, gracefully, as though with a calligraphic brush. Clearly this work has provided its author, and now us, with some stay against \"the inevitable commotion\" to which we have become all too accustomed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Leslie Ullman, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe You That All Along Has Housed You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary of Small\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHappiness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Carrino\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1954353774\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781954353770\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelsay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/06\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 44\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.09d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Carrino","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440196694271,"sku":"9781954353770","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e1efe9d9-db75-4754-a8a8-a38460229456.jpg?v=1777180824","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-no-hurry-michael-carrino-9781954353770","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}