{"product_id":"9781936671304","title":"Two Miles West","description":"In TWO MILES WEST, imagination, memory, and dream entwine to create voices that leap metaphysical boundaries. Entsminger asks us to suppose \"a time space lattice \/ imposed by a mind \/ composing images.\" In the realm of poetry, where an image in the mind's eye is as alive as a warm body, he explores the nature of knowledge.\u003cp\u003eEndearing characters dance to the beat: Carisha in tawny hay fields, shirtless rain-soaked boys, a wanna-be western outlaw, pelicans disguised as lady's slippers, Bach composing on a supernatural plane, a gangling bald Russian professor, and a three-year-old boy's vision of Grandma \"in full-cut apron \/ hugging her wide hips \/ canvas shoes to ease \/ sore feet smell of \/ onions and fried potatoes.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndividuals try to connect: faces trapped in wood grains, \"toes wiggle out to dance \/ teasing his stockings \/ bringing his fleet full stop \/ he lights a smile,\" young men following a trail round the hillside, a friend they pick up in a bar pushing \"imaginary buttons \/ that fumble under fingers,\" and persistent Handpick \u0026amp; McQ musing on life, war, and women, parading down the highway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike the feathery swaying bamboo in his Henry Evans tribute, Entsminger has a light and loving touch that reaches for a world and a human potential he believes in. \"the sun eases \/ into a cloud lake \/ and cools \/ I walk on\" The troubadour sings a love song.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A striking freshness, lyricism, and originality of voices-imagination and a sense of time and place characterize TWO MILES WEST. This uncommon first book of poetry has been seasoned by years of thought and experience. 'At night I pull the one runner curtain back \/ and look out the porch caves into ruined couch \/ below unshingled casts from lamplight.' You will be rewarded when you step into his light.\"-Michael Miller, author of LIFELINES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The debut collection of a poet as remarkable for his offbeat humor and Virginia down-homeness as for his hip urbanity: his love of jazz, qi, and an ideal world without fences. Among the many triumphs in this collection is Entsminger's invention of a noir Steve McQueenish-slash-Jack Kerouackian character named McQ. Some killer poems: 'Hazing,' 'Fallen,' 'Wind and Bamboo,' and the magnificent pièce de résistance, 'Old Bach.' Every day Entsminger, a Coloradan, looks out on views of evergreen meadows and snowcapped peaks. The scope of this book goes way beyond 'two miles west'!\"-James Reiss, author of RIFF ON SIX: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pinyon Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056232939760,"sku":"9781936671304","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781936671304_p0.jpg?v=1763659093","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781936671304","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}