{"product_id":"its-not-magic-isbn-9780807002254","title":"It's Not Magic","description":"\u003cb\u003eSnapshots of youth, displayed with verve and sparkling clarity, in a new collection of poems that “dazzles with its linguistic sleight of hand” (Richard Blanco).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom jaunts through New York subways, to a Cincinnati Waffle House, to a chance encounter with one’s future life partner, Sands writes in turns autobiographically and imaginatively, drawing on voices from his private world and the public sphere to create an urgent portrait of youth that is almost rebellious in its sheer, persistent joy. Nostalgic and vivid, this collection of poems is written reverie. Selected by Richard Blanco, Jon Sands is the winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series.\u003ci\u003eForeword by Richard Blanco\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ei.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLove Poem\u003cbr\u003eDiaphragm\u003cbr\u003eMoons over My Hammy\u003cbr\u003ePoof\u003cbr\u003eOrigin Story: 1956\u003cbr\u003eOrigin Story: 1999\u003cbr\u003eHere’s the Real New\u003cbr\u003ePalindrome\u003cbr\u003eEpithalamion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eii.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf I Am All That I Have\u003cbr\u003eDecoded\u003cbr\u003eI Know That Silence Will Greet Me . . .\u003cbr\u003eInternet as a Concept Is Not Inspiring\u003cbr\u003eLast Night\u003cbr\u003eThe Woods\u003cbr\u003eTo My Ohio, a Letter Home\u003cbr\u003eHow I Remember It\u003cbr\u003eYou Know How You Try to Say a Thing\u003cbr\u003eCheck Out\u003cbr\u003eWho Here Is Not a Liar?\u003cbr\u003eBreak\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eiii.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore the Bloom\u003cbr\u003eLiving Room Monologue the Night of Winter Formal\u003cbr\u003eLove Spell\u003cbr\u003eWhen I See Andre 3000 Buying Bananas at Trader Joe’s\u003cbr\u003eI Have a Beer with a Professor Who Drinks with His Students\u003cbr\u003eOde to the Rat\u003cbr\u003eDandelion\u003cbr\u003eOde to My Mother’s Hip\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eiv.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Trick When Synching \u003ci\u003eDark Side of the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e with \u003ci\u003eThe Wizard of Oz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Basement\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ev.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI Should Be Writing the Story\u003cbr\u003eAnd It Will Be a Beautiful Song\u003cbr\u003eHey Mom\u003cbr\u003eNew Year’s\u003cbr\u003eAbove Ground\u003cbr\u003eThe Shoreline\u003cbr\u003eThe Day We Chose Instead to Grow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eThank You\u003c\/i\u003e“\u003ci\u003eIt’s Not Magic\u003c\/i\u003e is, in fact, a magical experience, a book that dazzles with its linguistic sleight of hand, blurs the poetic line between illusion and reality, and made me disappear into another dimension of language where honesty is as beautiful as it is brutal.”\u003cbr\u003e—Richard Blanco, \u003ci\u003eHow to Love a Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Could a sentence be a life, or, at least, a version of one? A thing we read this way and that way, unpinnable? Everywhere here is the discipline of trying—to sense, read, be, get free. I mean: this book is a series of astonishments. And the way it is made of Sands’s everything—dreams, once-secrets, goodbyes, golds, and embarrassments—makes me know that any life is also a book of poems. Difficult, impossible, gleaming. What brilliant and generous work this is.”\u003cbr\u003e—Aracelis Girmay, \u003ci\u003eKingdom Animalia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Opening with a question, Jon Sands invites us into a personal journey that is at once comic, deadly serious, beautifully meditative, and completely within the praxis of being human. Sands’s magic lies not in the sleight of hand or the sudden disappearance of objects; it is more about walking backwards, the lifesaving text, and a life that refuses to be lived in silence. \u003ci\u003eIt’s Not Magic\u003c\/i\u003e is the truth at rapid speed and a bounty of innovation.”\u003cbr\u003e—Willie Perdomo, \u003ci\u003eThe Crazy Bunch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Jon Sands is the raconteur we’ve been waiting for. Savoring these poems, it’s hard to believe that Jon strides the same world we do—these inventive stanzas resurrect, reconstruct, rejigger and redefine, all with that enviable Sands signature. (There’s nothing like this.) (Wow.)”\u003cbr\u003e—Patricia Smith, \u003ci\u003eIncendiary Art\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJon Sands\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe New Clean\u003c\/i\u003e and the cohost of \u003ci\u003eThe Poetry Gods\u003c\/i\u003e podcast. His work has been featured in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and anthologized in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. He’s received residencies and fellowships from the Blue Mountain Center, the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, and the Jerome Foundation. He lives in Brooklyn, NY","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300089286885,"sku":"NP9780807002254","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807002254.jpg?v=1767730272","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/its-not-magic-isbn-9780807002254","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}