{"product_id":"imaginary-logic-poems-isbn-9780547840208","title":"Imaginary Logic: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e“It’s Jones’s age-defying distinction to have mobilized a moral intelligence that’s sufficiently vast to contain multitudes.”—\u003cem\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eImaginary Logic\u003c\/em\u003e is a brilliantly expansive, deeply meditative, and at times wildly imaginative collection of poems that combines Rodney Jones’s distinctive storytelling ability, sharp social intelligence, and keen powers of observation in a book that is wistful, satiric, audacious, and remorseless. “The Art of Heaven” opens with a parody of Dante and a down-home, twisted humor that Jones’s readers have come to rely on: “In the middle of my life I came to a dark wood, \/ the smell of barbecue, kids running in the yards. \/ Not deep depression. This nice hell of suburbs. \/ Speed bumps. The way things aren’t quite paradise.”\u003cbr\u003e      Jones, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, is one of America’s “best, most generous, and most brilliantly readable poets” (\u003cem\u003ePoetry\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003cem\u003e Imaginary Logic\u003c\/em\u003e is the most eloquent expression yet of his rigorous mind, scrupulous eye, and capacious heart.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “[Jones’] poems are a work of hands, and hands-on. His rich lyric sentences register experience at the full and thus at its high moment of complexity. Like most of the important poets, he’s a lapsed pastoralist attempting to restore—no, save—the fallen.”—Stanley Plumly\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"Middle age, masculinity, competition, religion, football, and the art of poetry itself spin together into powerful ironies in some of the best poems Jones has created so far: 'I had a dream,' one begins, 'of harnessing and exacting irrevocable power over others... in the cleat-pocked, dried dirt of a practice field.'\" --\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890164297957,"sku":"NP9780547840208","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/imaginary-logic-poems-isbn-9780547840208","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}