{"product_id":"the-new-laymans-almanac-isbn-9780771054075","title":"The New Layman's Almanac","description":"Deft and dazzling, brash and boyish, Jacob McArthur Mooney makes his debut on the poetry scene with a rare combination of verbal pyrotechnics and honest emotion. Using manic word-charm and an open heart, Mooney invents a prosody for the twenty-first century. With a passionate wisdom about the frustrations of how humans connect, these poems surprise us with protean language and satisfy us with wry, earthy sense.“A rollicking debut from a young enthusiast with some of Walt Whitman’s beaming sincerity. . . . Mooney takes authentic and big literary risks, by exploring sincere emotionality, genuine political belief and considered poetic experiment. . . . This is Canada speaking, loud, clear, quirky and unashamed to be itself. This is surely one of the most audacious and fresh poetic debuts of the new Canadian century.”\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003eJacob McArthur Mooney is a Nova Scotian now living in Mississauga, Ontario. He is an editor with the always controversial web journal ThievesJargon.com and the founder of \u003ci\u003eThe Facebook Review\u003c\/i\u003e. A graduate of Memorial University of Newfoundland, he is currently an MFA student at the University of Guelph. His work has been widely published, and in 2006 he was shortlisted for the CBC Literary Award in Poetry.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New Layman’s\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlmanac\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis his first book.\u003cu\u003eA Guide to Enjambment\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eI\u003cbr\u003ewoke up and the girls who\u003cbr\u003elived across the street were\u003cbr\u003epretending to be cowboys. They had\u003cbr\u003etwo sticks with horse heads affixed to\u003cbr\u003ethe ends, they were galloping down\u003cbr\u003ethe one-lane laughing, experts at improbably mapping\u003cbr\u003ea four-legged system’s\u003cbr\u003egait\u003cbr\u003ein bipedal half-time. I\u003cbr\u003eheard of drummers that can work\u003cbr\u003elike that, one arm banging out two-four and the other, three-eight on the same kit. It’s\u003cbr\u003eeasy to see how\u003cbr\u003ethe act of expression\u003cbr\u003egrows\u003cbr\u003efrom an awkward\u003cbr\u003estutter-\u003cbr\u003estep, the point where\u003cbr\u003echaos becomes\u003cbr\u003echance, becomes\u003cbr\u003eorder, becomes\u003cbr\u003etime.Poems","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300513632485,"sku":"NP9780771054075","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771054075.jpg?v=1767740672","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-new-laymans-almanac-isbn-9780771054075","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}