{"product_id":"9781896209203","title":"Winged Spirits: Collage Paintings by Jean Zaleski; 24 Contemporary American Poets","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the Introduction to this beautiful collection of poems, first published in 1995, Franklin Reeve writes:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     \"In the great democratization of our world over the last two-hundred years, angels have become much less formal \u003ci\u003e(as portrayed in Shakespeare's plays, for instance)\u003c\/i\u003e and more like us - or more as we'd like to be. We no longer think them capable of \"falling,\" like Lucifer, and we don't picture them as the avenging archangelic raptors of a generation ago. They're Raphael's \u003ci\u003eputti\u003c\/i\u003e. They'e Rosso Fiorentino's parrot-winged child. They're the substance of fairy tales. One calendar even calls an angel \"a metaphysical Lone Ranger.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     \"What more definitive may we say they are? They're samples of our minds. They're mini-pictures of our realities. They're images of ourselves transformed by the music of colors and words. They'e pieces of what we've lost and what we hope to become. I the world of now, between then and then, we be the dreamers: they're the dreams that float on and on and on, from one generation to the next.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is truly a collection to be treasured.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bayeux Arts, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061919727856,"sku":"9781896209203","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781896209203_p0.jpg?v=1763610399","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781896209203","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}