{"product_id":"in-time-9781952335785","title":"In Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe title of Michael Anania's wonderful new book, \u003cem\u003eIn Time, \u003c\/em\u003ecould not be more appropriate. Poetry is the art of measure, of being in time and on time, both in eternity and the present moment. Anania is a master of such moments, when \"music, like age, is space \/ and silence; something like sorrow \/ waits in the air,\" or, in his poem,\"Predicaments,\" part of its delight is \/ lifting the familiar \/ out of the strange.\" This is an important book that deserves a wide readership for its music, wisdom, and close seeing of the world: \"Ardor is itself a kind of order, the day, each day, stirred with it ... harbor, shadow, persimmon, bright leaves, orangery.\" -Paul Hoover \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Anania's poetry has long dazzled by its precise observation, its careful, thoughtful diction, its masterful modulation of thought and attention. In the immediate landscape, Anania's keen eye sees a palimpsest of history, a layered and teeming cinema of spectral presences as alive as our selves; in the immediate moment, he reads the motions of memory, personal and ancestral. The rich and various poems of \u003cem\u003eIn Time \u003c\/em\u003eare a showcase for the verbal music that has always animated Anania's lines: a music formal and somber, as in the elegies punctuating the collection, or its run of poems responding to the dark days of pandemic isolation and national and international unrest; a music as warm and lyrical as Stan Getz's saxophone sound, as complex and aggressive as that of Pharoah Sanders; a music playful and paradoxical, in the spiky Weimar-cum-blues measures of Anania's adaptation of Gay's \u003cem\u003eThe Beggar's Opera \u003c\/em\u003eand Weill's \u003cem\u003eThreepenny Opera. \u003c\/em\u003eReading \u003cem\u003eIn Time, \u003c\/em\u003efollowing the harmonic modulations, the varied and complex time signatures of Anania's poems, we ride \"the torque of one moment \/ giving way to another,\" we find ourselves, delighted and astonished,\"lifting the familiar \/ out of the strange.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Mark Scroggins \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo read the work of Michael Anania is to feel as though you are in many places at once-the Missouri River, the South Loop, Chicago, dairy barns and road houses, inside a Brubeck tune, Tuscany and Calabria, a solitary moment of domestic space...an attention to place and time, the interstices and liminal spaces where thought and sensory experience meet. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Lea Graham \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Madhat, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50644858962194,"sku":"9781952335785","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_12d9f62b-0306-4122-ad84-42692a5ae153.jpg?v=1733128834","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/in-time-9781952335785","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}