{"product_id":"9781480851184","title":"Suspending the Muse: Toward the Authentic Article","description":"\u003cp\u003eSuspending the Muse addresses issues regarding the authentic article of living in the present. It is an adventure into the unknown where the mind leaves the body to unearth what is concealed. There is a meaningful focus on redeeming time past through time present as time future becomes a grain of sand leading to an enlightened house of many rooms.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIn this poetic work, author Dean Gardner uses dazzling wordplay and vivid imagery to pay homage to the artistic muse, that elusive spirit whose visits inspire great works and whose absences haunts those who create.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIt is\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThat it was destiny\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThat brought him\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTo the threshold\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eOf the beyond\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThrough a portal\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFound in the third eye\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eOf the muse\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eShe led him\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTo the power\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eOf The Spirit of Truth\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAllowing him\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTo go\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBeyond phenomenal reality\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAs the celestial clocks\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eYielded\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTo a parabola of time\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e Anyone who has pursued creative ventures will understand this look into the muse’s journey. Suspending the Muse is a quest for comprehension in the face of the unknown as self and muse battle with nothingness. It is an overture to postmodernism in both form and substance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Archway Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174402212080,"sku":"9781480851184","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781480851184_p0.jpg?v=1763621061","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781480851184","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}