{"product_id":"9781680030129","title":"Constant State of Leaping","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection, Morton’s tenth, is a bold book of poetry delving into risks. It’s the moving forward; the constant discovery of new things. Using a combination of quotes, mythological images, and exquisite metaphors from nature, Morton delivers poems that describe the absolute urgency of giving one’s heart over to life, the burning drive to have faith in the world, the insistence that everything, in its own way, is holy. This book is unfettered joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTending Fires        \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I wanted to write a sonnet last night,\u003cbr\u003e because that’s what lovers do, but the fire\u003cbr\u003e needed tending, and all I could think of\u003cbr\u003e were your shoulders, and that’s not romantic,\u003cbr\u003e so I put on another log, and thought\u003cbr\u003e about that hot summer day underneath\u003cbr\u003e that oak, when our shoulders brushed, and I blushed\u003cbr\u003e at the nearness of you, and how we made\u003cbr\u003e love that night . . . still . . . that’s not what I wanted\u003cbr\u003e to write . . . But it’s you;  you, my love.  You are\u003cbr\u003e my night and my morning, and the hot coals\u003cbr\u003e beneath these logs . . . hear them hiss and whisper\u003cbr\u003e like cicadas—cicadas of the trees,\u003cbr\u003e and the summer, and of all things that burn.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Texas Review Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47059253002480,"sku":"9781680030129","price":6.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781680030129_p0.jpg?v=1763688123","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781680030129","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}