{"product_id":"jump-straight-up-9781956285444","title":"Jump Straight Up","description":"Rushing in as a welcome surprise, these \"new late poems\" were mostly composed both late in the year and late in the author's years. In \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eJump Straight Up\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003e Jarold Ramsey versifies and pokes at an odd knot of themes: encroaching age overtaking a long wonderful marriage; the delights of grandparenthood; awareness of our \"interspecies\" situation in the everyday natural order; the blessings and challenges of Central Oregon's canyons, summits, and rangelands; and the intriguing ways the mostly horizontal left-to-right axis of our lives seems to shift in old age toward the vertical-\"way down\" (and out) but also \"jump straight up\" (in the imagination).\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\"Whether it's with elegies or tributes, Ramsey prompts us toward joy, urging us to \u003cem\u003ejump straight up, \/ free of the gravity of time.\u003c\/em\u003e\"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e-Paulann Petersen, author of My Kindred\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Jump Straight Up\u003c\/em\u003e is a buoyantly beautiful report from a Northwest master at age 85.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-John Daniel, author of\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGifted\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"Ramsey delivers accounts of history, local lore, love for kinfolk, and yearning to understand the changes carrying us all along, richly in need of poems just like these.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Kim Stafford, author of \u003cem\u003eSinger Come from Afar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Poetry Box","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50523018494226,"sku":"9781956285444","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cf10122b-b369-40c9-9a11-cda197a0120f.jpg?v=1731132675","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/jump-straight-up-9781956285444","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}