{"product_id":"the-quicken-tree","title":"The Quicken Tree","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNOTE: Title is out of print.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing from a potent mix of his American roots and the French Symbolists in a crucible of a surreal imagination, Knott stands apart from current conventions. Fascinated by the verbal texture of language, he fuses together ideas and images that challenge and bedazzle. The Quicken Tree is replete with poems that stretch the traditional boundaries of love: consummated, unrequited, and failed. Other poems, given to fictional characters, settings and circumstances, evade traditional genre definitions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The most original poet of my generation . . . also the greatest outsider\" — Stephen Dobyns, \u003cem\u003eAWP Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStress Therapy \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eTime, time, time, time, the clock \u003cbr\u003e vaccinates us, \u003cbr\u003e and then even that lacks \u003cbr\u003e prophylaxis. \u003cbr\u003e Ticktock-pockmarked, stricken \u003cbr\u003e by such strokes, we \u003cbr\u003e get sick of prescriptions\u003cbr\u003e which work solely\u003cbr\u003e on the body. \u003cbr\u003e Systole diastole-- \u003cbr\u003e It is by its very \u003cbr\u003e intermittency\u003cbr\u003e that the heart knows\u003cbr\u003e itself to be an I.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e © BOA Editions, Ltd 1996\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Available editions: Title Unavailable\u003cbr\u003e -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003e Cloth ISBN: 1-880238-24-1 \u003cbr\u003ePublishing Date: January 1995\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback ISBN: 1-880238-25-x\u003cbr\u003ePublishing Date: January 1995\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":9802464325,"sku":"1-880238-25-x","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Cloth","offer_id":8419167365,"sku":"1-880238-24-1","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/file_138.jpeg?v=1527683603","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/the-quicken-tree","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}