{"product_id":"zenos-eternity-9781589881709","title":"Zeno's Eternity","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"These sensitive and meditative poems offer up new ways to consider the passage of time.\"--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A moving collection that acknowledges the limitations of the human mind, but also the limitless capacity of the human heart.\"--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 16\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems in Mark Jarman's new collection, \u003ci\u003eZeno's Eternity\u003c\/i\u003e, take their cue from Zeno's paradox, which says that since space is infinitely divisible, an arrow traveling toward a target will never reach its destination. Everything exists in a kind of suspension. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom \"The Arrow Paradox\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eZeno sent\u003cbr\u003ehis arrow flying\u003cbr\u003eendlessly from point\u003cbr\u003eto point along its arc\u003cbr\u003eto make a point\u003cbr\u003eabout eternity: \u003cbr\u003egetting there is tricky. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough our lives run on, we may feel that certain moments are timeless, and love that moves us toward each other can give us a sense of eternity. Portraying moments from ordinary life and from times long past, moments both pivotal and mundane, Jarman encourages the reader to feel the beat of time and its inexplicable stillness. By making scenes indelible, the poet stops time; and we might ask ourselves, is this not only Zeno's eternity, but ours, too? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Jarman\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of eleven books of poetry. \u003ci\u003eThe\u003cbr\u003eHeronry\u003c\/i\u003e is his most recent. He has also published three books of essays and\u003cbr\u003ereviews, won awards for his poetry, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is\u003cbr\u003eCentennial Professor of English, Emeritus, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Paul Dry Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50645173076242,"sku":"9781589881709","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_04a485fc-3a54-4364-94a8-deb21dd8b7d3.jpg?v=1733141777","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/zenos-eternity-9781589881709","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}