{"product_id":"9781556592140","title":"More Than Peace and Cypresses","description":"\u003cp\u003eCyrus Cassells’ fourth volume of poetry is an elegiac “book of heroes,” a lyric homage to the “artistic fathers” who taught him “the truth-or-bust beauty of passion transformed \/ into sheer compassion.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the wake of his father’s death, Cassells returned to Italy, France and Spain, countries that nurtured him as a young writer, to investigate the sources of his inspiration. Vincent Van Gogh, Cesare Pavese, Eugenio Montale, Attilio and Bernardo Bertolucci, and García Lorca are among those invoked and revisited in order to brace Cassells through his mourning, and to serve as touchstones in his search for the meaning of gallantry and quest for courage and expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout his travels—and especially while contemplating flamenco culture—Cassells experiences the juxtaposition of mourning with unanticipated gusts of love and eroticism. Lush Andalusian-based poems emphasize the present’s power for surprise and renewal, while his elegies are ecstatic, erotic and sometimes comic. Questing and elemental, elegantly lyrical, \u003ci\u003eMore Than Peace and Cypresses\u003c\/i\u003e arcs beyond grief to celebrate the fleeting majesty of our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom “Way of the Duende”:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe day mind gone, Lord,\u003cbr\u003eand all the stringencies,\u003cbr\u003ethe day’s bright yokes, the day’s heavy bridles of status:\u003cbr\u003eflamenco as an impassioned celebration of night,\u003cbr\u003eof duende, of mystery’s warrens and arabesques\u003c\/i\u003e — \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRomans, Carthaginians, phantom\u003cbr\u003eMoors wander through the redemptive,\u003cbr\u003eincantatory dancing\u003c\/i\u003e —\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eCyrus Cassells\u003c\/b\u003e ’ previous books have earned the William Carlos Williams award, a Lambda Book Award, and a selection as “Best of the Year” by \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e . He teaches at Southwest Texas State University and lives in Austin, Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060144685296,"sku":"9781556592140","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556592140_p0.jpg?v=1763756828","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556592140","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}