{"product_id":"words-for-a-lost-year-murray-shugars-9781953252975","title":"Words for a Lost Year","description":"\u003cp\u003eArranged in four sections named for the seasons, these poems trace a relationship through the arc of a symbolic year, exploring desire and place and identity. Insofar as they express a speaker's state of mind, these are lyric poems. The author says: \"These carnivorous lyrics, backhand love poems, and sorta sonnets embody the gut-punch poetic.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Spinoza and Springsteen walk into a bar . . . and the result is Murray Shugars' WORDS FOR A LOST YEAR, helmed by philosophy and fueled by desire. The voice in these poems comes at you with the bruised romanticism of the lyric and the full-throated keening of a rock song. The weather is what holds them together, but if you put your ear to the page you can hear the howling heart that just might blow them apart.\" --Johanna Sutherland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Secret, shuddering, blithe, Murray Shugars' poems impart that quality of the heart that Lorca called duende. I say impart because their art, which is subtle and investigative, seems to channel deep image, deep song, the big-B Beat in Kerouac's original sense of beatitude. Here is battlefield, Stanford's. Here is craft as what it is, ritual. In Shugars' WORDS FOR A LOST YEAR, writing is the rite of seasons, but this is no simple or unearned pastoral meditation. These poems ruminate with the year--on art, on each other, on love, on distances, on the deep time that weighs like weather. These are poems that return, poems to return to, because here are seasons of the heart.\" --Matthew Salyer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In Murray Shugars' third collection, WORDS FOR A LOST YEAR, poems function as meaningful artifacts and assorted treasures that are revelatory and lyrical, conjuring memories and quotidian moments held beneath a powerful lens of honest reflection, with glimpses of 'sunstruck snowflakes, ' 'a discarded flake of sky, ' and 'Night's white asterisks.' The poems here--whether in Muskegon, Vicksburg, or Mosul--offer clarity, discoveries, and beautiful truths like days remembered in any given year.\" --Gina Ferrara, \u003cem\u003eAmiss\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Murray Shugars\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1953252974\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781953252975\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e DOS Madres Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/10\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 6.20w x 0.40d","brand":"Murray Shugars","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44634204045567,"sku":"9781953252975","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_673f7d13-cd99-45a8-8582-344ea6473227.jpg?v=1703588098","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/words-for-a-lost-year-murray-shugars-9781953252975","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}