{"product_id":"9780982010594","title":"One Sleeve","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOne Sleeve \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eby Richard Carr\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e nbsp;    \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Carr’s brilliant fifth book, \u003ci\u003eOne Sleeve\u003c\/i\u003e, collects all the resonating themes of his earlier work, turbocharges them, and demands that the reader, stripped of all pretense, illusion, and self-pity, face the human condition of our  time.    From  these  dark  poems  shine  great  beauty  and  a  strange, tentative-yet-tough  kindness,  while  simile  and  lyricism  transform  each poem  into a mythology  that is  both  frightening  and comforting.  –  Nancy White, author of \u003ci\u003eSun, Moon, Salt and Detour\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eCarr’s narrator picks scabs off his philosophical wounds while his alter ego, ―One Sleeve,‖ attempts to make sense of a fractured universe.  ―Irony is the new  certainty,‖  declares  Carr’s  ambivalent  speaker,  caught  between  the physical sensations and philosophical problems of this world and the next.  – David Hulm, Kirkwood Community College, Iowa City \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The very first poem announces that Carr will not be playing by the rules.  ―He thinks of himself in the third person \/ except sometimes when he talks. \/\/ I talk between people. \/ I aim for the space between passersby.‖  Breaking the rules  allows the narrator to  speak  with\/as a  protean voice that makes him always multiple, inciting us—we passersby—into remaining, like One Sleeve, ―awake, counting beams of snowlight \/ hovering in the slats of the blinds.‖  – H. L. Hix, author of First Fire, Then Birds \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Evening Street Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019227021552,"sku":"9780982010594","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780982010594_p0.jpg?v=1763885504","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780982010594","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}