{"product_id":"this-minute-9780823225460","title":"This Minute","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis Minute is a connected whole, in which the verse is driven by strong intellectual excitement, evident in the energetic movement of the lines and in a vocabulary that switches easily from the colloquial to the exact. There is an urgent voice, felt close at hand. And there is a skill in handling and matching the size of a poem to its subject that makes each invigorating to read—one arrives slightly out of breath. These poems convey a “metaphysical” meaning as well as a bodily intimacy. They are luminous, discovering rather than manufacturing their metaphors as the most exact way of speaking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Early History of Photography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first photographer’s sister spent the summer\u003cbr\u003ewatching the leaf-imprints disappear.\u003cbr\u003eJust like life, she wrote to him, but a little slower;\u003cbr\u003elike a chemical recipe for gratitude.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShhh, the first photographer said, hovering\u003cbr\u003eover the silver salts arrayed like listening devices.\u003cbr\u003eDon’t let the sun know what we’re doing.\u003cbr\u003eThis is a god we can capture and he’ll never know it,\u003cbr\u003enever miss these little fistfuls of glitter, dumbed down.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDear sister, you must know the miracle is in the stoppage.\u003cbr\u003eMotion is cheap and plentiful; \u003cbr\u003estanding still is what costs and costs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJean Gallagher is Associate Professor of English at Polytechnic University in New York City. She is the author of The World Wars Through the Female Gaze.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo read a sample of Jean Gallagher’s poetry, visit www.poetsoutloud.com\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jean Gallagher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48282443809019,"sku":"9780823225460","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_610279ab-2a1a-4db3-a9d6-4b7b02bf7e8f.jpg?v=1778613517","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/this-minute-9780823225460","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}