{"product_id":"9781944682156","title":"Consulting With The Swifts: New and Selected Poems 1982-2016","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe best poems here, and they are many, all reclaim a moment from the clamor of the world; and each such poem in turn presents the attentive reader with a like moment of refuge... Like Monet with his haystacks or cathedrals, Slonimsky achieves repetition and variation without monotony. ...The poems invite us to focus, to triangulate, to seek out correspondences. Writing these poems helped Slonimsky to do these things; reading them helps us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel Hadas\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eQuestions in the Vestibule\u003c\/i\u003e, from the Preface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA consummate poet.These remarkable poems, many the observations and musings of Slonimsky's alter ego, Pythagoras, constitute a memorable contribution to contemporary poetry. The three decades of poems in this volume approach \"the calculus\/by which light spawns geometry\" and marvel at \"How intricate,\/hawk theorems for ellipses, scythe-eyed soar\/a geometric text.\" Slonimsky is a keen observer of the natural world; his Pythagoras posits multiple lives: \" I've had five lives all told, none what they seem-\/as gnat, bat, toad, Pythagoras...\" This book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the intersection of science and poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMiriam Kotzin\u003c\/b\u003e, editor of Per Contra and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Body's Bride\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis work strikes me as unique in current American poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eX. J. Kennedy\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eIn a Prominent Bar in Secaucus\u003c\/i\u003e (on \u003ci\u003ePythagoras in Love\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sonnet turns out to be the perfect-maybe even the Platonic form-for Lee Slonimsky's Pythagorean meditations. (They) serve as an entrance into the philosopher's mind, as if we are thinking and discovering along with him-the world before us always new and marvelous, changeless and changing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA. E. Stallings\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eOlives: Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (on \u003ci\u003ePythagoras in Love\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA book with new pleasures on every page. The fluidity of imagination, all of the natural world becoming parts of the pattern discerned, the language lending grace and clarity to the vision...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Hoffman\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eMakes You Stop and Think\u003c\/i\u003e (on \u003ci\u003eLogician of the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA born naturalist gifted with urban insights, verse assembled from careful observation and remarkable emotional investment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eErnest Hilbert\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eCaligulan\u003c\/i\u003e (on \u003ci\u003eWandering Electron\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf they are about any one thing, these poems are about a type of salvation, man not only returning to nature but remembering he is, in fact, part of nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatherine Hastings\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and Stein Walk Into a Bar\u003c\/i\u003e (on \u003ci\u003eWandering Electron\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA scientist-poet, a mathematician-poet, a conjurer poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth J. Coleman\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fifth Generation\u003c\/i\u003e (on \u003ci\u003eRed-Tailed Hawk on Wall Street\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spuyten Duyvil Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47034015252720,"sku":"9781944682156","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781944682156_p0.jpg?v=1763792975","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781944682156","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}