{"product_id":"9780898233551","title":"The Field","description":"\u003cbr\u003ePoetry. \"When I first read Kinnell and Rich and Snyder as a much younger man I took from each a certain poignant and charged satisfaction, the sense of having come home to a life not mine. Here in this powerful, humane and steady book, I find it again and I am grateful beyond measure.\"—Theo Dorgan\u003cp\u003e\"Whimsical and wry, self-deprecating and humane, Tim Nolan pinpoints what it means to be human. THE FIELD is an extraordinary read.\"—Katrina Vandenberg\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rumi wrote, 'Out beyond ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field... When the soul lies down in that grass... even the phrase 'each other' doesn't make sense anymore.' Tim Nolan digs in that field, unearthing one gob-smacking treasure after another. Lie down in that grass. Meet him there.\"—Eric Utne\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In these lean, direct poems Tim Nolan seeks candidly and humbly for a true sense of self and a solid place to stand in this busy, often superficial, detail-laden, rushing world, where we are 'going nowhere at great speed.' He revels in memories of a Boston hotel, a café, the whistle of a man who wants to be a bird, and, most movingly, the songs of his marriage bed and his dying mother, as well as the music of his own voice, full of love and grief.\"—Freya Manfred\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Rivers Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018516152560,"sku":"9780898233551","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780898233551_p0.jpg?v=1763851961","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780898233551","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}