{"product_id":"9781680030334","title":"Reaching for Longer Water: New and Selected Poems","description":"Award winning poetry critic Ange Mlinko wrote of Parsons and his work, “The Renaissance man was once a courtly ideal; Parsons shows that it is a democratic ideal too—warm-blooded, muscular, as companionable on the page as in the flesh.” Both tangible and cerebral, Parsons’s poetry lifts its readers into a new, transformational reality with a depth of insight that is truly exceptional.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReaching For Longer Wate\u003c\/i\u003er brings the reader, the most compelling of his poems from his previous four collections, poems hailed by poetry luminaries, Edward Hirsch, Stanley Plumly, Robert Phillips, and Paul Mariani.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e THE FRANK GAZE OF WOMEN\u003cbr\u003e After Baudelaire’s “Exotic Scent”\u003cbr\u003e Yes, yes, they bestow delights—\u003cbr\u003e        not only in the seedy way\u003cbr\u003e we all know: they plant something\u003cbr\u003e        in the littoral vacancy\u003cbr\u003e and in an instant there is an ineffable\u003cbr\u003e        fire—that forging force\u003cbr\u003e on which so much more depends\u003cbr\u003e        than wheelbarrows \u0026amp; chickens.","brand":"Texas Review Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47169422098672,"sku":"9781680030334","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781680030334_p0.jpg?v=1763688339","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781680030334","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}