{"product_id":"long-lens-new-selected-poems","title":"Long Lens: New \u0026 Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Brockman-Campbell Book Award for 2011\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLong Lens represents forty years of Peter Makuck’s work including twenty-five new poems. 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","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/long-lens-new-selected-poems","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}