{"product_id":"the-late-parade-adam-fitzgerald-9780871407948","title":"The Late Parade","description":"Aswirl with waking dreams and phantom memories, \u003cem\u003eThe Late Parade\u003c\/em\u003e is a triumph of poetic imagination. \u003cem\u003eTo write about one thing, you must first write about another\u003c\/em\u003e. In Adam Fitzgerald's debut collection, readers discover forty-eight poems that yoke together tones playful and elegiac, nostalgic and absurd. Fitzgerald's shape-shifting inspirations \"beckon us to join an urban promenade\" (McLane) with a multiplicity of chimerical stops: from the unreal cities of Dubai to the former Soviet Union, from Nigerian spammers and the Virgin Mary to Dr. Johnson and Cat Power. \u003cp\u003e\"The glory of this volume is the long title poem, which carries the primal vision of Hart Crane into a future that does not surrender the young poet's love of the real,\" writes Harold Bloom. Mash-ups of litanies, monologues and odes, these poems spring from a modernist landscape filled with madcap slips of tongue, innuendo, archaisms and everyday slang. Though Fitzgerald's lines often hallucinate meanings that feel open-ended, they never ignore the traditional pleasures of poetic craft and memory, their music an ambient drone--part Technicolor, part nitrous oxide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven so, what glues these fantasies together is more than the charm of the maddeningly chameleon rhetoric. Fitzgerald's sonorous voice is unabashedly that of a love poet's: melancholic, baroque and visionary. \u003cem\u003eThe Late Parade\u003c\/em\u003e is a testament to the powers of confusion, which may disguise our sense of loss but offer in return that eloquent tonic known as poetry. As Richard Howard writes, \"When the new poet turns up the heat, he gives us just the necessary outrages which make us understand what we never knew we could say.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam Fitzgerald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0871407949\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780871407948\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liveright Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/04\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.50d","brand":"Adam Fitzgerald","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44761048842495,"sku":"9780871407948","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_da96ab5d-5819-4f79-a169-9d260502282d.jpg?v=1706680226","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-late-parade-adam-fitzgerald-9780871407948","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}