{"product_id":"strange-antlers-richard-jarrette-9781643172798","title":"Strange Antlers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Richard Jarrette combines erudition with profound simplicity and breathtaking beauty in Strange Antlers. He is a true disciple of the ancient masters, who can be heard and felt in these elegantly crafted poems full of poignancy and wisdom.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Yun Wang, translator of Dreaming of Fallen Blossoms: Tune Poems of Su Dong-Po\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It is a glorious book and feels like it was written in a passion or a trance. I find it so powerful and poignant. I love the long titles that tell about his childhood and emotional state. They let me into the speaker in a way that matters to me. It is a magnificent work.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Marsha de la O, author of Every Ravening Thing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Friend and disciple to the more-than-slightly-intoxicated classical Chinese poets who fled court life to live in thatched huts, Richard Jarrette epitomizes many of their qualities: pungent and poignant imagery, and a Rip-Van-Winkle loneliness about the passage of time and relationships. But the precise juxtaposition of beautiful and terrible-'Boy reads by refinery flare stack light \/ taste of sulphur on condemned air'-is Jarrette's own marvelous signature.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Patrick Donnelly, author of Little-Known Operas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGazing into the abyss of perilous times, Jarrette turns to the master poets of the ages who formed his mind and ethics seeking guidance-Sappho to W.S. Merwin and particularly the classical Chinese. Strange Antlers weaves ancient and free verse forms into a startling conversation about the headlines and survival that remembers and seeks wisdom's way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRICHARD JARRETTE is the author of Beso the Donkey (Michigan State University Press, 2010) Gold Medal Poetry Midwest Independent Publishers Association 2011, A Hundred Million Years of Nectar Dances (Green Writers Press, 2015), The Beatitudes of Ekaterina (Green Writers Press 2017), and The Pond (Green Writers Press, 2019).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Jarrette\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1643172794\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781643172798\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Parlor Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d","brand":"Richard Jarrette","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048297099519,"sku":"9781643172798","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f8fe8f2a-9408-49ca-a70c-2d5beb28b41a.jpg?v=1684994998","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/strange-antlers-richard-jarrette-9781643172798","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}