{"product_id":"the-persistence-of-objects","title":"The Persistence of Objects","description":"\u003cp\u003e\r\n\tIn \u003cem\u003eThe Persistence of Objects\u003c\/em\u003e Richard Garcia gives us a poetry rich in the surrealist and humanist traditions - these are poems with wit, intelligence and heart. In Garcia's poems, historical figures such as George Washington, Squanto and Ponce De Leon pop in as ancestors and guests. Such moves illustrate Garcia's belief in memory as a continuous reciprocal creation. A core of love poems threads through the book, often in the form of Spanish style sonnets. Garcia's poems are rife with surprises and fables that upend the status quo, rendering up our secrets with comic irony and tragic poignancy.   \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cstrong\u003eAt the Formosa Café\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tOur booth so dark, the waitress brings a flashlight\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\twith the menu.  If I whispered\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tthat her waist is a fragment of a statue, \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tstill standing after some catastrophe, \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\twould you know it's your waist I'm dreaming of? \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tTell the waitress we want that bird, that one,\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tthere in the bamboo cage, that sings so sweetly\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tonly those songs it manages to steal. \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tMeanwhile the famous ones pinned to the walls, \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tthe famous dead who sat in these same booths \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tknow what we don't know yet--you and I-- \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\twe're going to fall down on our backs \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tremaining as we have fallen, wondering--\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\twhat happened to that sky we once believed in? \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t© BOA Editions, Ltd 2006\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tAvailable editions:\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPaperback ISBN: 978-1-929918-84-3\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPrice: $15.50\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPublishing Date: October 2006\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8419161605,"sku":"9781929918843","price":15.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/THE_PERSISTENCE_OF.jpg?v=1527683602","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/the-persistence-of-objects","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}