{"product_id":"9781911229001","title":"Expiations","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is but a sampler, and a rich smattering of verse – of all cadences and genres, penned over a long period of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e These poems could, at best, howsoever fleetingly, warm the heart, soothe the disgruntled sensibility, or allay the anxieties of the disturbed mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The only interlarding thread, in all of them, is that rarefied sense of beauty that informs all poetic imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The reader could pause on the sounds, the moods, or the meanings of the Lyrics: it doesn’t matter – each is part of the mythopoetic resonance of the stanzas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Occasionally, the Verses, old and new, are endorsed to near and dear ones, past and present: for such is the ever ongoing romance of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e I will hope they stir the waking spirit in the reader: and compel him or her to Look around, yet again, at the mystery and splendour of our existence in this grandiloquent Planetary Endowment within which we occupy a tiny space as restless, reverberating nuclei of Pain and Desire that are our inexorable, conjoint Destiny as humans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The selection is made across a very long canvas, dating back to 1968. Each is representative, as a loyal echo, of the period, the mood, and the context.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The verse is mere spoken music, as I think but in measures of metre and rhyme.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e And words are deployed only as tonal instruments rather than items of syntax loaded with semantics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e So the reader may read, and \u003cem\u003eread in to,\u003c\/em\u003e as S\/he pleases.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e If these verses live on, it is my hope that the individuals they are dedicated to, shall also abide – forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Finally, the poetry of the universe is flung all around us: as Wordsworth had it: \u003cem\u003e‘O Listen, for the vale profound is overflowing with the sound.’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Augur Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47708741894384,"sku":"9781911229001","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781911229001_p0.jpg?v=1763630034","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781911229001","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}