{"title":"Richard Garcia","description":"\u003cp\u003eRichard Garcia is the author of six collections of poetry, including three from BOA Editions: \u003cem\u003eRancho Notorious \u003c\/em\u003e(2001), \u003cem\u003eThe Persistence of Objects \u003c\/em\u003e(2006), and \u003cem\u003eThe Chair\u003c\/em\u003e (2014). Garcia is the recipient of numerous awards including a Pushcart Prize and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. For twelve years he was poet-in-residence at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where he conducted workshops in art and poetry for hospitalized children. He teaches creative writing in the Antioch University Los Angeles MFA Program and at the College of Charleston.  For more information about Richard Garcia, visit  \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.richardgarcia.info\/\"\u003ewww.richardgarcia.info\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"rancho-notorious","title":"Rancho Notorious","description":"\u003ch5\u003eSigned copies available in limited supply\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike the movie of the same name, the poems in \u003cem\u003eRancho Notorious\u003c\/em\u003e are peopled with a colorful cast of characters, all born of the fertile imagination of Richard Garcia. Through narratives, lyric poems and dramatic monologues, Garcia’s characters demonstrate that the idea of self is fluid, one identity easily swapped for another. These are poems with heart, poems that believe that the construction of memory, however fragmentary and inconclusive, is also an act of redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCat's Cradle\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotice how the man standing\u003cbr\u003eat the freeway entrance, pretending\u003cbr\u003ehe's waiting for a carpool, strokes\u003cbr\u003ea string that holds his briefcase together.\u003cbr\u003eDo you remember an insistence of a kite\u003cbr\u003epulling at your wrist? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow recall a skate key on a string\u003cbr\u003ebouncing against your chest, the indecipherable \u003cbr\u003eknot of fishing line that suddenly shot\u003cbr\u003ethrough the guides and disappeared\u003cbr\u003einto black water. Consider the Gordian knot:\u003cbr\u003ewas it a kind of book, some ancient, lunar\u003cbr\u003eknowledge encoded in twine that Alexander \u003cbr\u003ecould not decipher? These are things \u003cbr\u003eyou can think about while waiting \u003cbr\u003eat an intersection for the long,\u003cbr\u003elong procession of a child's funeral to pass. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollow your thoughts up to the level of clouds. \u003cbr\u003eNow stay there awhile, as if\u003cbr\u003eyou had slipped into the cogs\u003cbr\u003eof the wind's machinery, which,\u003cbr\u003eif you could see them, would resemble \u003cbr\u003ebright, braided coils ascending, \u003cbr\u003edescending...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd 2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAvailable editions: \u003cbr\u003e-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003ePrice: $14.00 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":8418863685,"sku":"1929918011","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (Signed)","offer_id":12467813580881,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/file_97.jpeg?v=1527683328"},{"product_id":"the-persistence-of-objects","title":"The Persistence of Objects","description":"\u003cp\u003e\r\n\tIn \u003cem\u003eThe Persistence of Objects\u003c\/em\u003e Richard Garcia gives us a poetry rich in the surrealist and humanist traditions - these are poems with wit, intelligence and heart. In Garcia's poems, historical figures such as George Washington, Squanto and Ponce De Leon pop in as ancestors and guests. Such moves illustrate Garcia's belief in memory as a continuous reciprocal creation. A core of love poems threads through the book, often in the form of Spanish style sonnets. Garcia's poems are rife with surprises and fables that upend the status quo, rendering up our secrets with comic irony and tragic poignancy.   \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cstrong\u003eAt the Formosa Café\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tOur booth so dark, the waitress brings a flashlight\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\twith the menu.  If I whispered\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tthat her waist is a fragment of a statue, \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tstill standing after some catastrophe, \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\twould you know it's your waist I'm dreaming of? \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tTell the waitress we want that bird, that one,\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tthere in the bamboo cage, that sings so sweetly\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tonly those songs it manages to steal. \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tMeanwhile the famous ones pinned to the walls, \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tthe famous dead who sat in these same booths \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tknow what we don't know yet--you and I-- \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\twe're going to fall down on our backs \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tremaining as we have fallen, wondering--\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\twhat happened to that sky we once believed in? \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t© BOA Editions, Ltd 2006\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tAvailable editions:\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPaperback ISBN: 978-1-929918-84-3\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPrice: $15.50\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPublishing Date: October 2006\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8419161605,"sku":"9781929918843","price":15.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/THE_PERSISTENCE_OF.jpg?v=1527683602"},{"product_id":"the-chair","title":"The Chair","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSigned copies available in limited supply\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of America’s foremost prose poets, Richard Garcia’s \u003cem\u003eThe Chair\u003c\/em\u003e takes place simultaneously in the natural world and in a speculative world rich in fabulist tradition: historical figures roam like ghosts; time is pulled and twisted; and narrative spins effortlessly out of language. A core of autobiography grounds these poems that are accessible, highly-imaginative, and rife with surprises. Finely-spun with wit, intelligence, and heart, these poems teach us to dream with eyes wide open.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Aftermath\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Aftermath arrive uninvited, without retinue, or precedent. Gray sunlight was gradually suspended. Stars formed in cliques, giggling, carrying on. Cosmic rays continued to probe unabated, as The Aftermath remained, uninvited. Several numbers piled on the couch, but added up to nothing. Blame The Aftermath. Single-windowed souls were admitted, some bringing gifts of pomade. Tiny sandwiches were served, each of related interest. Low-grade voluptuousness eventually passed into sleep. The Aftermath sat in a corner. No one spoke to it. 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