{"product_id":"running-late-mark-belair-9781950462261","title":"Running Late","description":"\u003ci\u003eRunning Late\u003c\/i\u003e is a hymn to the moments of revelation and connection that illuminate a life, glimpsed while hurrying through it. In Mark Belair's moving poems, the mundane is often unexpectedly transformed into the sacramental: tools in a shed, a waft of hot tar, sunlit back alleys full of junk, a radiator, a burned-out car, a pigeon on a tenement fire escape, a collection of parked strollers-even inanimate things have a \"hidden soul \/ made manifest,\" just as much as the human characters who people these pages. The speaker is a flâneur who pays compassionate attention to the unlovely, the neglected, and the apparently prosaic, inviting us to slow down, observe, focus on what matters-a child on a stoop, say, or weary immigrant cab drivers blaring their horns \"a long way from home.\" This is a wise and deeply humane book.\u003cp\u003eCatherine Jagoe, author of Bloodroot\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe snapshots presented in Mark Belair's\u003ci\u003e Running Late\u003c\/i\u003e are commonplace, but he observes and mulls them-the scarred, stained floor of a coffee import shop, delivery bikes behind the door of a closed pizzeria, a \"painter's poled roller\/ reaching high up\/ [a] weathered wall\"-until their implications emerge. The more personal lyrics among these chiseled, free-verse poems, are direct and unabashed-neither sentimental nor afraid of sentiment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBill Christophersen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Belair\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1950462269\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781950462261\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelsay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.30d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mark Belair","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48486489981183,"sku":"9781950462261","price":18.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5c53ac3b-0cdd-4de8-8fb3-9bd173dc0e8b.jpg?v=1778055682","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/running-late-mark-belair-9781950462261","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}