{"product_id":"9780986111136","title":"Almost Too Much","description":"\u003cbr\u003ePoetry. \"Almost Too Much both tactfully and relentlessly interrogates our human experience in these dehumanizing times. There's not a sliver of false hope in these pages, but reading them, we catch glimpses of the paradox of our lives, that \"The sound of geese \/overhead, their thin cries clear \/as night through the ceilings and roof \/ of the house, is either the saddest \/sound [we] will ever know \/ or one of great lifting joy.\" Barbara Murphy's quietly brilliant poems move us readers toward usable truth.\"—David Huddle Author of \u003cem\u003eGlory River\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBlacksnake at the Family Reunion\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Murphy's lyrical narratives, lively and exact, speak of braveries and hesitations, fugitive beauties and stations of calm. A lifetime of truths take the reader through first games of hide and seek, the boys so far away\/lost in their secret places\/there was no way\/they'd ever get home in time; first loves and second marriages where desire is more of a casual friend.\/It will not\/always be there breathless and flushed; loving children and step-children with different needs in different time zones. These poems should be read aloud for their honesty and musicality. They do the heart good. Almost Too Much is a stunning debut.\"—Dzvinia Orlowsky Author of \u003cem\u003eSilvertone\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Handful of Bees\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Deeply intimate, each line a breath. In flashes of brilliance against a landscape of existential dread, these poems flare up and stare down this given world until it surrenders its grace.\"—Nancy Mitchell Author of \u003cem\u003eThe Near Surround\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGrief Hut\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cervena Barva Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47017704980720,"sku":"9780986111136","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780986111136_p0.jpg?v=1763890471","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780986111136","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}