{"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. A young girl practicing flute on the end of a pier, furniture repair, an ancient shark tooth, the deaths of friends--these are some of Makuck's subjects. His short lyrics and long narratives vary from comic to elegiac, often finding their locus in the landscapes of coastal North Carolina. \"For twenty-five years, in his poems and stories, Peter Makuck has been finding the extraordinary in the ordinary...In his new collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eOff-Season in the Promised Land\u003c\/em\u003e, Makuck's eye is Lasik-sharp, attentive to the surface, and penetrating to the core.\" --Prairie Schooner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor The Woman at The Dock Who Asked What It Was Like Down There \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike easing out of the body\u003cbr\u003einto sleep or love, no need for words\u003cbr\u003eto rise toward the quicksilver surface,\u003cbr\u003erising on a waver of light from the Atlas, a tanker \u003cbr\u003eeighty feet down\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike the difference between light\u003cbr\u003eand the weight you feel\u003cbr\u003ewhen you first hit the deck shedding water, \u003cbr\u003emask, fins, belt, and tank,\u003cbr\u003ealmost light again \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike drifting off, our moonlit wetsuits\u003cbr\u003eswimming in place on the cord between porch posts, \u003cbr\u003elighter still in the onshore breeze, drying,\u003cbr\u003ebecoming lighter, loose-limbed and hovering\u003cbr\u003ebehind dunes swaying with sea oats. . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen ghosting again \u003cbr\u003eamong queen angels and blue parrots\u003cbr\u003echromis and clouds of spot-tail pins gliding\u003cbr\u003eby encrusted rails     horned cleats and sea doors\u003cbr\u003eat ease among anemones\u003cbr\u003eon the tanker wreck     this great garden of rust  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e©BOA Editions, Ltd 2005 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAvailable editions: \u003cbr\u003e-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003ePrice: $14.95\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":8418766341,"sku":"1929918712","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (Signed)","offer_id":12467812401233,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/Off-SeasonFront.jpeg?v=1527683309","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/off-season-in-the-promised-land","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}