{"product_id":"splendor","title":"Splendor","description":"\u003ch5\u003eSigned copies available in limited supply\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSteve Kronen's poems explore the hardships that daily challenge the human heart. From such hardships, compassion and empathy arise. Some of the poems in \u003cem\u003eSplendor\u003c\/em\u003e focus on our inescapable vulnerability due to aging or accident.  \u003cem\u003eSplendor\u003c\/em\u003e also includes a number of love poems to the author's wife and daughter. And because he feels that the first person is often claustrophobic and enervating, much of the book looks beyond self and family. Many of the poems are rhymed and metered and play with formal elements. Throughout are sonnets, villanelles, a sestina, a Dantean canzone, nonce forms, and others. From the New York Times Book Review (December 10, 2006): \"You'd have to look to Paul Muldoon to find a more outrageous end-rhymer than Kronen. Or a quieter one. Kronen works extensively in fixed (and some feral) forms, but his lines, like Muldoon's, tend to be so metrically irregular and heavily enjambed that even the full rhymes barely register. It's a deliberately subdued music, more for the mind than for the ear....Kronen's skill with the figurative allows him to borrow figures from familiar sources (the Old Testament, classical mythology), apply them to familiar subjects, and still produce something original.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Last Evening \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003e          after Rilke \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e And night and the large wheels turning,\u003cbr\u003e rutting the earth toward the cannon’s thunder. \u003cbr\u003e He looked up from the piano to find her\u003cbr\u003e across the room, her face a warning\u003cbr\u003e and a prayer, mirroring, he realized, his own.\u003cbr\u003e Outside, a fresh wind ruffled the trees above\u003cbr\u003e the house and she grew more seductive\u003cbr\u003e in his gaze as he continued with the song.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Then suddenly, both faces dulled. \u003cbr\u003e And he stopped playing while she listened\u003cbr\u003e to the wind and to her heart. His field cap\u003cbr\u003e on the table now seemed strangely distant,\u003cbr\u003e folded neatly as though it were an ancient map\u003cbr\u003e holding within itself all the monstrous world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e © BOA Editions, Ltd 2006\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Available editions:\u003cbr\u003e -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003e Paperback ISBN: 978-1-929918-78-2\u003cbr\u003e Price: $14.95 \u003cbr\u003e Publishing Date: May 2006  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":8418995013,"sku":"9781929918782","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (Signed)","offer_id":12467839696977,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/SPLENDOR.jpg?v=1527683352","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/splendor","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}