{"product_id":"2940149347032","title":"A Confederacy Of Joy","description":"Juan-Paolo Perre is the 2014 Legacy Poetry Prize Series Award selected author. Evoking the haunting spectre of Federico García Lorca's duende, this auspicious debut collection hums of a humane music with themes both personal and universal. These are the poems of a soul seeking and of one searching. They are the poems of the prodigal - who journeys out eager into the world and returns having found it once again in shades bucolic, melancholic and buoyant. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne can clearly see in these poems his ancestral bloodline: from Pablo Neruda to Hart Crane and Walt Whitman to Philip Levine. These poems clamour with a sure and pervasive vision.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn fact, these are, in their purest essence, love poems: sometimes solemn as prayers and more often than not, rhapsodic; the love of words, of place, of persons past and present and a love for and of a world which seems always in a miraculous flux between the sacred and profane.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike incantations or the lingering lyric of a departed balladeer, they are the poems written by a new type of visionary - one that sees the world but then dares to step back into it - taking his place once again but now militantly hopeful and armed with a certain kind of impenitent joy.","brand":"Siena Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47149032112368,"sku":"2940149347032","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149347032_p0.jpg?v=1763715211","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149347032","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}