{"product_id":"9780822979159","title":"Now, Now","description":"In \u003ci\u003eNow, Now\u003c\/i\u003e, Jennifer Maier's second poetry collection, time is of the essence.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Moving with quantum ease through the porous membranes of the past, present, and future, the speaker wonders: What is each moment but the swirling confluence (or shy first meeting) of past and future—of what \u003ci\u003ehappened\u003c\/i\u003e, and what-has-not-yet-happened but will?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Such phenomenological questions are sparked by ordinary events: a friend's passion for jigsaw puzzles; an imagined conversation with a neighbor's dog; a meditation on the uses of modern poetry. Here, in language at once elegant and agile, intimate and universal, the author probes beneath the surface of happenstance, moving with depth, humor, and compassion into the heart of our shared predicament: that of loving what we cannot keep.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But if time in these poems is relative, it bends toward grace—even, as the title suggests, towards consolation. Taken together, the poems invite us to raise a glass to the way we're each \"held light and golden in Time's mouth,\" and to savor something of the eternal—distilled, sparkling, already lost—inside every \u003ci\u003enow\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081096904944,"sku":"9780822979159","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780822979159_p0.jpg?v=1763751328","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780822979159","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}