{"product_id":"9781771690263","title":"Walk-Up Music","description":"A KIRKUS RECOMMENDED REVIEW\u003cp\u003eWatsky does the work of 10 poets in this excellent, slim collection. An avid baseball fan, Watsky writes gorgeously of his passion for America's pastime. To borrow a term from the sport: he's a utility player. Watsky handles multiple positions with equal dexterity and skill. In fact, there's not much he can't do. Verse about Jungian archetypes? He's got it: \"Yes!! shouts Shadow, straight to hell! \/ Be nice, admonishes Persona. \/ Partially disrobed, Anima at the mirror peekaboos her hair \/ first across one breast then the other.\" (Watsky is a trained clinical psychologist.) Verse about the Japanese poet Santoka? That's here too: \"Sake \/ his favorite koan got him \/ into trouble and then got \/ him out before the bent \/ nail of his personality \/ was pounded \/ flat.\" How about a poem, out by out, of San Francisco Giant Matt Cain's perfect game? \"June 13, 2012, a Wednesday night against \/ the Astros, we're down for one of Matt's trade- \/ mark gems, especially Houston being nearly \/ impotent on the road not that we're entitled \/ to point fingers.\" And it's all good. Though he can ably write in a variety of forms, Watsky's favorite weapon is a sort of prose poem divided cunningly into sharp, un-rhyming couplets. One particularly effective example is \"Squaw Valley Pan Shot\": white pine that nips \/ the heels of retreating \/ glaciers a mere ten \/ millennia ago this summer. God \/ knows, my timing \/ can be rotten but I haven't bought any \/ ski areas lately.\" In this form, the line breaks do the work; \"God\" is left out on a limb, separated from the knowing he will eventually do. Thus does an approachable meditation on a winter landscape become subtle, incisive theology. As if Watsky didn t already have enough on his plate. Refreshing poetry that has a little something for everybody. --Kirkus Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Il Piccolo Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47037472768240,"sku":"9781771690263","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781771690263_p0.jpg?v=1763707781","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781771690263","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}