{"product_id":"9781884836763","title":"Circle Routes","description":"2000 Akron Poetry Prize Winner, Chosen by Mary Oliver\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Circle Routes\u003c\/i\u003e, a navigational term, John Minczeski transports the  reader to a series of places that often interconnect, whether they are  as close as the poet’s back yard or as distant, in history and  geography, as a Japanese concentration camp and the pungent streets of  Rome. What links the poems, however diverse in subject and situation, is  the poet’s sense of empathy, his intimate understanding of anyone who  has had to make a moral decision and live with the consequences. And yet  these poems neither preach nor swell with self-satisfaction. Their  treatment of even the darkest theme is lyrical, affirming that no evil  can eclipse a world in which one can still hear the smallest hum of  life, as at the end of “Great Circle Routes”: “it’s the sound of bees  mired \/ in quadratic equations of lilies, \/ sucking light from the  blossoms.”\u003c\/p\u003e    Author Bio:\u003cbr\u003e  John Minczeski a native of South Bend, Indiana, lives in St. Paul,  Minnesota, teaching poetry in elementary schools and colleges throughout  the state. He has an M.F.A. in creative writing from the Warren Wilson  Program for Writers. Winner of National Endowment for the Arts and Bush  Foundation Artist fellowships, Minczeski has published three previous  books of poetry, most recently Gravity (Texas Tech University Press,  1991).","brand":"University of Akron Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057750917360,"sku":"9781884836763","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781884836763_p0.jpg?v=1763605256","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781884836763","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}