{"product_id":"im-no-longer-troubled-by-the-extravagance","title":"I'm No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI’m No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance\u003c\/em\u003e is a map of human fragility that is punctuated by brittle bones, vague yesterdays, and lovers who leave. Ultimately a stage for language to do the unexpected, Rick Bursky’s new poetry collection speaks to matters of the heart, brings new awareness to the mind, and affirms the surreal extravagance of being alive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“T\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ehere Are New Games We Can Play\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e”\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI once believed I could warm my blood\u003cbr\u003eby making my heart erupt into flame,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eOnce believed I could disguise myself\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eby turning my skin into a wall laced with vines\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e—but a woman convinced me otherwise.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eYou, on the other hand,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ehave convinced me of nothing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSo go ahead, pretend we’re talking.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eYou’ll tell me how the telephone rings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ewithout being prompted.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eI’ll tell you how clouds form a map\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eonly the dying can read. It’s wonderful how \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ehonesty is a convention so easy to malign.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eStill, the truth keeps its secrets to itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eI\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003em No Longer Troubled by \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eExtravagance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eRick Bursky’s breezy, surreal narratives are bristling with a ‘Qui vive' alertness to the pedestrian world and its aftershocks all the way to eternity. I’m wonderfully troubled by these poems, their extravagances and great diversions through which we often plunge recklessly toward truth and all perils of the heart: ‘Love without fear is meaningless, it’s a machine \/  like grief, always in the early stages of invention.\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e―Mark Irwin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eRick Bursky is blessed with a complicated and eccentric imagination, and the ability to write pellucidly uncomplicated sentences. These gifts are joined together in his new book \u003cem\u003eI’m No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance\u003c\/em\u003e where each poem is startling in its strangeness and weird beauty. Other gifts are Bursky’s constant ability to surprise, as well as his ability to create an amalgam of the serious, comic, and fantastic, turning many of his poems into delirious journeys. The book is a pleasure to read.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e―Stephen Dobyns\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2015\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8420398469,"sku":"9781938160790","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/ImNoLongerTroubled_FinalFront.jpg?v=1527683278","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/im-no-longer-troubled-by-the-extravagance","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}