{"product_id":"9780990703044","title":"The Portable Man","description":"\u003cbr\u003ePoetry. \"'We are a strange people,' writes Armando Jaramillo Garcia in his much-anticipated debut, THE PORTABLE MAN, whose poems assert their human oddity with rightful confidence and a maestro's finesse. Lucid, loopy, and committed to giving voice to the 'persecuted princes and imperious imps' in all of us, this is a stunning and distinctive collection that pushes back against—and thrives under—the threat of homogeneity and oppression.\" —Timothy Donnelly \u003cp\u003e\"THE PORTABLE MAN moves with a kind of forensic exposure of the inner-makings of the world. Guided by a restlessness that projects the possibility of cosmic intervention, these individual poems collide to create something grander, akin to a weather system.\" —Paige Taggart \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jaramillo Garcia's THE PORTABLE MAN is a pool of life-substance. When confronted with the mechanics of nature, text can be paramount; to declare scapegoats, to atone acts of ill-will. With lines lush but not overgrown you ask, how many souls to a body? Converts are okay, but beware of the fanatics. Here we are 'at the end of movies \/ at the end of books \/ at the end…'\" —Eric Amling\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Prelude Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019548246256,"sku":"9780990703044","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780990703044_p0.jpg?v=1763896843","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780990703044","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}