{"product_id":"9781597092647","title":"Cruising at Sixty to Seventy: Poems and Essay","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCruising at Sixty to Seventy \u003c\/i\u003eis the second book from award-winning poet Jim Tilley. In three sections—Dear Wife, Dear Self, Dear Friends—the speaker, a physicist and mathematician by education, now retired from a career on Wall Street, reflects on everyday experience, finding grace and drama in life’s smaller moments. As in Tilley’s debut collection, \u003ci\u003eIn Confidence\u003c\/i\u003e, many poems use ideas, problems, and puzzles from physics and mathematics to explore personal relationships, such as “Particle and Wave,” in which a fundamental concept from quantum mechanics becomes a metaphor for the ripples and collisions on the fabric of family life. The book ends with a personal essay, “The Elegant Solution” (originally published as a \u003ci\u003ePloughshares \u003c\/i\u003eSolo), about Tilley’s relationship with his father based on the language of mathematics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Hen Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050207199472,"sku":"9781597092647","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781597092647_p0.jpg?v=1763814616","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781597092647","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}