{"product_id":"9780930829476","title":"Craft","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Andrew Davis's first collection of poems, 64 linked sonnets, is an unsentimental, autobiographical meditation on how he came to his twin callings--poetry and woodworking--and what craft, \"the mastery of a manual art,\" feels like from the inside. The cover photograph of one of the poet's chairs, with its incised lettering, embodies his preoccupation with the turning of words into things. His installation of furniture and carvings is on exhibit at the Musuem of New Mexico, Santa Fe (through Juned 25)\"-\u003ci\u003eAmerican Craft\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSONNET 62\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe idea is this: when God made things\u003cbr\u003e He had to clear a space within himself,\u003cbr\u003e To shove over, to push himself aside,\u003cbr\u003e To allow a space for created things to be.\u003cbr\u003e Also, by extension, im-perfect himself,\u003cbr\u003e Accept, in part, the status of a craftsman,\u003cbr\u003e With all the attendant certainty of error,\u003cbr\u003e And forfeit, in part, the role of deity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe last is my extrapolation, but\u003cbr\u003e The first I lifted from a label on\u003cbr\u003e A sculpture in a museum; the which,\u003cbr\u003e In turn, was borrowed from the cabalists:\u003cbr\u003e Stolen, lifted, borrowed, so it comes,\u003cbr\u003e The embrace of imperfection: \u003ci\u003eZim-Zum\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lumen Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008500121840,"sku":"9780930829476","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780930829476_p0.jpg?v=1763866673","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780930829476","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}