{"product_id":"one-gerald-fleming-9781934909973","title":"One","description":"Poetry. Gerald Fleming is a remarkable writer, made more so by his commitment to the prose poem, a form which at its best, as here, is a delicious treat on almost every occasion. His new volume, ONE, takes on the monosyllable and wrestles it into dizzying and wonderful pretzel-esque works which may appear, at first glance, non-pretzel- esque. You'll probably love this book as much as I do.--Frederick Barthelme\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e At times wry and wickedly self-aware, these linked prose vignettes deepen into a resonant, searching meditation on that which resides hidden within us--metastatic cells, racism we've spent half our years unlearning, the slow burn of our lives. Fleming's voice is rich with a plainspoken elegance that evokes flickers of Ovid ('the years fled from her face, ' he writes in elegy) or the quieted mind of a Gerard Manley Hopkins who's made peace with his god and is engaged in the contemplative practice of ordinary life. In this almost- Oulipian project, poet and speaker both gently interrogate language and self, 'take each shred down from the line \/ sew it to the next, soak it in brine \/ look at it \/ see that it means in ways we've not known--now finds us, \u0026amp; like us it's scarred now, but still ours--back in our mouths, on our tongues--quick birds! --flung into the air of our time.' ONE is a powerful collection woven of grief, compassion, and the joy of a life well lived. Sidling up against fiction's narrative drive, it's told in a reinvented sprung rhythm sure and steady as a heartbeat, as the beat of one's own footsteps.--Miriam Bird Greenberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gerald Fleming\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1934909971\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781934909973\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hanging Loose Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Gerald Fleming","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48486382960895,"sku":"9781934909973","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_60421ee2-cf6c-44f3-bdde-2b7278f375bb.jpg?v=1778055189","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/one-gerald-fleming-9781934909973","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}