{"title":"Peter Makuck","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeter Makuck is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including six from BOA Editions: \u003cem\u003eMandatory Evacuation\u003c\/em\u003e (2016), \u003cem\u003eLong Lens: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2010), \u003cem\u003eOff Season in the Promised Land\u003c\/em\u003e (2005), \u003cem\u003eAgainst Distance (1997), The Sunken Lightship (1990), \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eWhere We Live\u003c\/em\u003e (1982). Makuck is also the founder of \u003cem\u003eTar River Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, where he served as editor for nearly thirty years. For more information about Peter Makuck, visit \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.makuck.com\/site\/\"\u003ewww.makuck.com\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"against-distance-1","title":"Against Distance","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Peter Makuck's \u003cem\u003eAgainst Distance\u003c\/em\u003e, nature is both a reprieve and a danger. Here, various landscapes—oceans, inlets, rivers, foothills, deserts—pressure and test human relationships. In language full of power and surprise, Makuck illuminates nature's weather and the weather of the human spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eCatsail\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOut on the edge\u003cbr\u003ebetween ocean and a sky\u003cbr\u003ethat swallows light,\u003cbr\u003e     red, yellow, and green,\u003cbr\u003ebright as a foreign flag,\u003cbr\u003eit catches the wind\u003cbr\u003eand something inside\u003cbr\u003eabout color\u003cbr\u003ethe secret of difference,\u003cbr\u003ehow it changes\u003cbr\u003ewhat we are,\u003cbr\u003emakes us feel\u003cbr\u003ewe could walk out\u003cbr\u003eon that watery sunpath\u003cbr\u003einto another country\u003cbr\u003ewhere, like children,\u003cbr\u003ewe would do little but\u003cbr\u003eplay with the quiet\u003cbr\u003eand learn our colors again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Signed)","offer_id":12462795685969,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/9781880238769.png?v=1527683163"},{"product_id":"off-season-in-the-promised-land","title":"Off-Season in the Promised Land","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese poems speak to the various ways we exile ourselves from a paradise that is available at any given moment. 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Particular grist informs Makuck's vision and confirms his imagination's grasp.\"\u003cstrong\u003e - A.R. 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With precise language, Makuck’s imagery evokes spiritual longing, love, loss, violence and transcendence. His subjects include the aftermath of the 1970 killings at Kent State University; scuba-diving on an offshore shipwreck; flying through a storm in a small plane; rescuing a boy caught in a riptide; and lucid observations of spinner sharks, a gray fox, a spider, and a pelican tangled in a fishing line. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Peter Makuck sees through the detritus of daily life to what matters … It’s that essence that lives deep down in things, looked for in people, sea- and-landscapes, and creatures, that lifts the quotidian toward the marvelous, and animates this selection of poems from four decades.” —Brendan Galvin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong Lens (excerpt)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFolding laundry, I can see our clothesline \u003cbr\u003ewaving its patches of color like the flag \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eof a foreign country where I had happily lived \u003cbr\u003ein a small clapboard house surrounded by pines. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI can hear my mother in her strong accent \u003cbr\u003esaying she didn’t want a dryer \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eeven when we could finally afford one—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eOur sheets won't smell of trees and sunlight anymore. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd 2010 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAvailable editions: \u003cbr\u003e------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \u003cbr\u003ePrice: $19.00 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8420060485,"sku":"9781934414323","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/file_210.jpeg?v=1527683293"},{"product_id":"mandatory-evacuation","title":"Mandatory Evacuation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #660000;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #660000;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eThrough lyrical narrative, the poems in \u003cem\u003eMandatory Evacuation\u003c\/em\u003e find radiance in everyday people and subjects by the simple act of noticing—of seeking that which matters most. Like returning home with new eyes after a devastating storm, these poems startle us to awareness, focusing on the passage of time, the beauty of small, fleeting moments, and the importance of paying attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eHeld\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eI was almost home\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ewhen into the headlights ran\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ea raccoon, then stopped.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThose thuds and what the rearview\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eheld made their way home as well.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eMandatory Evacuation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Makuck writes as if the world is a sacred ground worth recording into poetry. 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So willfully does the poet eschew all look-ma-no-hands ‘poetic’ effect in those evocations that their moving revelations steal upon the reader, who looks up in astonishment, suddenly aware of having been schooled afresh in how to experience the fullness of our world.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Sydney Lea\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“Peter Makuck takes us into meditative space that is both thought and landscape, where we are caught with him in the ‘tight grip of a scene’ visited by the ‘snares of everyday passions.’ In \u003cem\u003eMandatory Evacuation\u003c\/em\u003e, perhaps his finest book, a deeply accomplished poet faces memory and mortality, earth, sea, and spirit with the quiet energy of a lyric voyager. Beginning with the wildflowers and enveloping art of France, a stray melody in a blood-red Spanish sunset, and backed by the red-tiled roofs of Greece where a priest relaxes into the ordinary, the poems move to America’s canyons and distances, and finally to ‘Barrier Island,’ the place where two immensities meet, a spiritual home. The journey ends with an admonition to forget intellectual fads and settle for the world, which is holy, and into the dream of the soul, which is poetry and prayer. We need these songs by a hunter—and \u003cem\u003ehaunter\u003c\/em\u003e—of beauty, that old-fashioned joy, and mystery, that necessity.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Betty Adcock\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The persona emerging from the poems of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMandatory Evacuation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e observes and is allied to the ‘hunched figure with his hook, \/ shaped like a question, pole tossed’ into the shiny blackness of the Tar River. The bright metal hook in that wet darkness asks an unknown question and waits for a tug on the line in response. The poet is attentive to place and to signs of the spirit and to the changing weather of his own life (including hurricanes that put a home at risk and lead to the mandatory evacuations of the title). . . . Here are no arbitrary backgrounds, but a strong umbilical line running from narrator to landscape and milieu.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003cem\u003eNorth Carolina Literary Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003ePeter Makuck’s \u003cem\u003eMandatory Evacuation\u003c\/em\u003e is the finest collection of poetry to date by one of America’s most accomplished writers. . . . Throughout this enchanting volume, Makuck dazzles us with his close reading of the world. . . .\u003cem\u003e Mandatory Evacuation\u003c\/em\u003e is a volume of poetry pinpointing the lyric necessity which informs a good poet’s way of perceiving the world. Makuck’s greatness lies in his ability to render fleeting moments in concrete and accessible images. These are thoughtful lyrics which succeed because of Makuck’s heightened sensitivity to the activity around him. Life and beauty and poignancy are present here as Makuck masters the act of carefully depicting his surroundings.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2016\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":17215528069,"sku":"9781942683186","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/MandatoryEvacuation_FinalFront.jpg?v=1527683294"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/makuck.jpg?v=1454345616","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/peter-makuck.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}