{"product_id":"the-way-it-was-a-m-brandt-9781952326493","title":"The Way it Was","description":"A. M. Brandt's fine and restless first book of poems, \u003ci\u003e The Way it Was, \u003c\/i\u003ehas a poem entitled, \"Ode to a View Through a Window with Fear of an Elegy Inside it.\" It encapsulates the particular urgency and timeliness of this book: we live in an unknowable and fearful era. These poems speak to our moment with a spirit that mixes ode and elegy so fully that it is neither possible nor desirable to tell them apart. What a gift this book is: a gift and a guide.\u003cp\u003eJim Moore, author of \u003ci\u003eUnderground, New and Selected Poems, Invisible Strings, Lightning at Dinner, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Long Experience of Love \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrandt sees life's everydayness and makes it vibrant. Here we are reminded that small miracles beckon us to slow the pace; we are invited to see what can be spotted through the windows of our waiting. These poems are solace. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Doll, author of \u003ci\u003eBeckett and Myth: An Archetypal Approach \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems found here are profane and, therefore, apolitical. Many of them describe a life in which the narrator is identified by conventional strictures-feminist, modern, motherly, womanly, sexual, and lonely. The essence of the voice composes of all these things but poetically imagines not to be any of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Darren Morris, poet, and editor of \u003ci\u003eParhelion Literary Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e A. M. Brandt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1952326494\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781952326493\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelsay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/25\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.24d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"A. M. Brandt","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440190042367,"sku":"9781952326493","price":18.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d8274333-b5c0-488b-8713-d81e2501494b.jpg?v=1777180782","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-way-it-was-a-m-brandt-9781952326493","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}