{"product_id":"for-lack-of-diamond-years-9781938349096","title":"For Lack of Diamond Years","description":"FOR LACK of DIAMOND YEARS is an idiosyncratic collection of short poems - most under 20 lines - where questions lead the way. The poems are a mixed set of free verse, unabashed counting forms like the Hay(na)ku and the Elfchen, and a very minimalist version of John Cage's mesostic form, along with a small number of poems based on colors, and a few that steal freely from traditional American songs. But at its heart, For Lack of Diamond Years is a quixotic narration between realms of being - from the quotidian into the sometimes numinous, sometimes murky realm of the unknown\/unknown, and on into a kind of revamped transcendental. There is a thread of praise that runs throughout - an embrace of the joys and sorrows of thinking and feeling, of love and loss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeasley-Baker, Caroline:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Caroline Beasley-Baker is a poet and visual artist. Her poems have recently appeared online and in print in \u003cem\u003eQarrtsiluni, MungBeing Magazine, MOBIUS \/The Poetry Magazine, The MOM Egg, La Fovea\u003c\/em\u003e and volumes 5, 6, 7 of the \u003cem\u003eBrevitas Festival Review of the Short Poem\u003c\/em\u003e. Meritage Press published two chain poems done with writer\/poet Holly Anderson and singer\/songwriter Lisa B. Burns in \u003cem\u003eThe Chained Hay(na)Ku Project\u003c\/em\u003e anthology, 2010. She frequently uses words\/poems in her visual work for which she has received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in painting and a National Endowment for the Arts in Collaborative Work. She lives in Fort Greene\/Brooklyn, New York.","brand":"Pelekinesis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50857174237458,"sku":"9781938349096","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8ca2054d-7152-44d9-b8ff-06dc290ce07f.jpg?v=1737523780","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/for-lack-of-diamond-years-9781938349096","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}