{"product_id":"9781938812460","title":"The Body In Equipoise: Poems","description":"\"A work at once finely tuned, vast, and surprising, Joel Allegretti's TheBody in Equiposeis, indeed, the 'human being squaring the circle,' with its 'nervous system. . .a radio tuned to the soundtrack of life.' Or perhaps this more accurately describes Allegretti himself, who in deft and subtle strokes has created a poetics from the bones and beams of centuries of architectural history (not to mention modern art) that is somehow both erudite and enduring, light and air filled-much like its inspiration. Further evidence of the highly original, remarkable work coming out of our small presses today.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Lynne DeSilva-Johnson, \u003cbr\u003eManaging Editor, The Operating System\u003cp\u003e\"Joel Allegretti tells us, 'I am a creature of rooms.' Each of his stanzas is cantilevered above corridors of memory. The ghosts of Mies van der Rohe, Eero Saarinen, Antoni Gaudi, and Frank Gehry create 'dwelling[s] in the shape of the shapeless.' This architect of words voices selves, with linguistic sinew, with etymological marrow. The poet avers, 'Under the wing of a great architecture \/ marble recovers its identity.' His personae chart peregrinations from the known to spires of the ineffable. With alacrity, the reader climbs each annealed line, arriving at a thrilling new language that is uniquely Allegretti's.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Dean Kostos, \u003cbr\u003eAuthor of This Is Not a Skyscraper\u003cbr\u003e(Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award winner) \u003cbr\u003eand Rivering\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Full Court Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49899297341680,"sku":"9781938812460","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781938812460","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}