{"product_id":"when-an-atheist-says-bless-paul-jolly-9781594980718","title":"When an atheist says bless you","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen an atheist says bless you\u003c\/em\u003e takes the reader deeper into the strange terrain covered by Jolly's first collection, \u003cem\u003eWhy ice cream trucks play Christmas songs\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems begin in familiar surroundings: newspaper clippings, snippets of history, Bible stories, and scenes embedded in our psyches such as an elementary school hallway. Their fulfillment, though, crosses into a place where Charles Darwin apologizes to Adam in Eden, or chants Jabberwocky to himself. A place where the stonemasons who build a cathedral abstain from swearing, and that abstinence is felt as a palpable blessing centuries later. A place where two patients who share a hospital room also share a clipboard with mingled notes for doctors and chaplains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis place, though surprising, is also oddly familiar. Maybe this is, after all, the world where we live. Maybe, with Jolly's help, we can see it for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Jolly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1594980713\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781594980718\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fernwood Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/23\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.27d","brand":"Paul Jolly","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43987712409855,"sku":"9781594980718","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_98b0bb75-ba3d-4058-96c8-04e513987a96.jpg?v=1683290562","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/when-an-atheist-says-bless-paul-jolly-9781594980718","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}