{"product_id":"the-horses-new-selected-poems-9781597092319","title":"The Horses: New \u0026 Selected Poems","description":"This new and selected brings together a dramatic sweep of poetry from one of the San Francisco Bay AreaÆs best-loved poet-critics. Four of Richard SilbergÆs books are included here, beginning with his first, \u003ci\u003eTranslucent Gears\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1982, through \u003ci\u003eDoubleness\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 2000. A previously unpublished long narrative-meditation interweaves a coming-of-age memoir, the Lurianic Cabala, and pure lyrical sections, topped off with a sharp, striking suite of new poems.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is a book that masterfully balances several poetic strains rarely found together in a single body of work. The writing is accessible, presented in the form of narratives, descriptions, and dramatic monologues, but Silberg is also an adept of the image, of the poetic figure that leaps to epiphany. In yet another direction, a number of these poems move towards a kind of pure saying. SilbergÆs puns and language play on themselves at the threshold to philosophy. His sensibility is born out of the counterculture—warm, sexual, mystic, by turns funny, tough, and elegiac. HeÆs a maverick, a singer, and an entertainer who believes in William Carlos WilliamsÆ maxim, \\u201cIf it ainÆt a pleasure, it ainÆt a poem.\\u201d","brand":"RICHARD SILBERG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48287093784827,"sku":"9781597092319","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_aea0bccf-0296-46d1-9db0-da7f9c68eabd.jpg?v=1771578070","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-horses-new-selected-poems-9781597092319","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}