{"product_id":"quick-now-always","title":"Quick, Now, Always","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this his third book of poetry, Mark Irwin makes stunning jumps of imagination to create a poetry that is Rilkean in conception and execution, and that speaks to the issues of history, memory, language and consciousness. Irwin's vision for America is as broad as Whitman's and Hart Crane's, his language propelled by charged rhythms and a lush music. These poems address the American experience, from shopping at Woolworth's to traveling into the Grand Canyon, from the art of Robert Mapplethorpe to that of Andy Warhol, who \"watched the working class work and it bored [him] to beauty.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Airport\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Sun extends the sky-- and the jets,\u003cbr\u003e Sleek aluminum pods, \u003cbr\u003e Nose up against \u003cbr\u003e The glass. Corridors \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Dissolve. Passengers \u003cbr\u003e Shuttle and queue \u003cbr\u003e Suddenly enclosed\u003cbr\u003e to a brief church of \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Farewells. Light floods \u003cbr\u003e Concrete and cloud. Wings\u003cbr\u003e Glint beneath sun. Planes\u003cbr\u003e Taxi, turn, glide; toys\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Moved by an invisible hand.\u003cbr\u003e Turbines whir, subside; a\u003cbr\u003e High-pitched suck and whine.\u003cbr\u003e Where is the outside of our\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Lives? Acres of cement disclose\u003cbr\u003e The horizoned trees, wavy \u003cbr\u003e And dumb through the fueled\u003cbr\u003e Heat. --A readying \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Jet.  Light, tinseled, leaks \u003cbr\u003e Along its side--turning, \u003cbr\u003e A tube of windows, \u003cbr\u003e Faces, illumined, dissolves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e © BOA Editions, Ltd 1996 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Available editions:\u003cbr\u003e -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003e Cloth ISBN: 1-880238-30-6 \u003cbr\u003e Price: $20.00 \u003cbr\u003e Publishing Date: January 1996 \u003cbr\u003e Paperback ISBN: 1-880238-31-4 \u003cbr\u003e Price: $12.50 \u003cbr\u003e Publishing Date: January 1996\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":9802339077,"sku":"1-880238-31-4","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cloth","offer_id":8418835909,"sku":"1-880238-30-6","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/file_95.jpeg?v=1527683325","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/quick-now-always","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}