{"product_id":"9780889226012","title":"Pell Mell","description":"\u003ci\u003ePell Mell\u003c\/i\u003e, the middle voice, the syntax meeting its astonishments in its forward stride looking backwards, imagining an image nation where the heart is always torn—to pieces possessed by the other(s). A book so sure of itself that Blaser can begin, after the act of said-and-done, a series called \u003ci\u003eGreat Companions\u003c\/i\u003e. Lesser poets might, and have, called them “masters.” But only because they lack Robin Blaser’s insistence on the audacious ever-present. A scatter of pearls for Aphrodite, and a lovely place to enter Blaser’s life work, \u003ci\u003eThe Holy Forest\u003c\/i\u003e. As to the plot, Blaser himself has said:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“These poems follow a principle of \u003ci\u003erandonnée\u003c\/i\u003e —the random and the given of the hunt, the game, the tour. Thus, \u003ci\u003erandonnée\u003c\/i\u003e is another title of this book, written, so to speak, in invisible ink. These poems are also a further movement in one long work that I call \u003ci\u003eThe Holy Forest\u003c\/i\u003e, though that need not trouble the reader before the forest is full grown. Poems called \u003ci\u003eImage-Nations\u003c\/i\u003e come and go throughout, never to become a complete nation. And \u003ci\u003eGreat Companions\u003c\/i\u003e of the art of poetry, a series which begins to gather here with Pindar and Robert Duncan, will continue until their voices close \u003ci\u003eThe Holy Forest\u003c\/i\u003e. That’s the plot.”","brand":"Talonbooks, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016195653872,"sku":"9780889226012","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780889226012_p0.jpg?v=1763853577","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780889226012","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}