{"product_id":"9781934414590","title":"Long Lens: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Peter Makuck sees through the detritus of daily life to what matters. . . . It’s that essence that lives deep down in things, looked for in people, sea- and landscapes, and creatures, that lifts the quotidian toward the marvelous, and animates this selection of poems from four decades.”—Brendan Galvin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Long Lens\":\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFolding laundry, I can see our clothesline\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ewaving its patches of color like the flag\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eof a foreign country where I had happily lived\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ein a small clapboard house surrounded by pines.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI can hear my mother in her strong accent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003esaying she didn’t want a dryer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eeven when we could finally afford one—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur sheets won’t smell of trees and sunlight anymore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLong Lens\u003c\/i\u003e represents forty years of Peter Makuck’s work, including twenty-five new poems. With precise language, Makuck’s imagery evokes spiritual longing, love, loss, violence, and transcendence. His subjects include the aftermath of the 1970 killings at Kent State University; scuba diving on an offshore shipwreck; flying through a storm in a small plane; rescuing a boy caught in a riptide; and lucid observations of spinner sharks, a gray fox, a spider, and a pelican tangled in a fishing line.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Makuck\u003c\/b\u003e taught at East Carolina University from 1976 to 2006, where he founded Tar River Poetry. He was 2008 Lee Smith Chair in Creative Writing at North Carolina State University. Winner of the Brockman Award and the Charity Randall Citation, he lives on Bogue Banks, one of North Carolina’s barrier islands.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141420105968,"sku":"9781934414590","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934414590_p0.jpg?v=1763642307","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934414590","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}