{ "item_title" : "On Sunday Afternoons", "item_author" : [" Richard Becker "], "item_description" : "Despite its unassuming low-key title, On Sunday Afternoons is a collection of vividly stimulating surprises-whether of natural description, emotional understanding, or bristling with tactful literary reference. What I especially admire is how in poem after poem Becker startles a reader into refreshed appreciation of what we think of as the ordinary world. Ordinary yes, but extraordinary too in the near-haiku glimmer and glow with which the poet animates small corners of the natural world. In one poem Local plovers call-/ and-answered/ from the power poles; in another night animals' voices rise cantabile falsetto/ in mock solemnity. She cranes her neck. (That Becker is also a musician-composer enriches his poetic brew.) On Sunday Afternoons also contains longer meditations rich in human-often familial-feeling, or poems that lean into more surreal animations, or revisit a remembered Brooklyn: washed up on the shoals of the Gowanus. Lucid and musically realized, these poems emerge from what Becker calls This center of imagining, a place in which the bright sky of his own imagination is at home. -Eamon Grennan a gorgeous collection... thoughtful, affecting, and compelling...filled with poems that are beautifully crafted, imaginative, moving. -Jeffrey Levine Of Fates, there's a] dense sensual feel of languageand its] frame is kept both various yet consistent. It's really a great size and shape, like they say-delightful -Robert Creeley ", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/64/662/828/1646628284_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "14.99", "online_price" : "14.99", "our_price" : "14.99", "club_price" : "14.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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