{"product_id":"9780547518299_imaginary-logic","title":"Imaginary Logic","description":"\u003cp\u003eA new collection from a Kingsley Tufts Award–winning poet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eImaginary Logic\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliantly expansive, deeply meditative, and at times wildly imaginative collection of poems that combines Rodney Jones’s distinctive storytelling ability, sharp social intelligence, and keen powers of observation in a book that is wistful, satiric, audacious, and remorseless. “The Art of Heaven” opens with a parody of Dante and a down-home, twisted humor that Jones’s readers have come to rely on: “In the middle of my life I came to a dark wood, \/ the smell of barbecue, kids running in the yards. \/ Not deep depression. This nice hell of suburbs. \/ Speed bumps. The way things aren’t quite paradise.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRodney Jones, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, is one of America’s “best, most generous, and most brilliantly readable poets” (\u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003ci\u003eImaginary Logic\u003c\/i\u003e is the most eloquent expression yet of his rigorous mind, scrupulous eye, and capacious heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when a master storyteller turns his keen eye to the absurdities and grace of modern American life?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eStorytelling in Verse:\u003c\/b\u003e Follow a Dante-esque journey through the \"nice hell of suburbs,\" complete with the smell of barbecue and the startling humor of the everyday.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMeditative Poetry:\u003c\/b\u003e Explore profound and personal moments, from scenes of the late sixties to the quiet revelations found in an Alabama town.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSatirical Edge:\u003c\/b\u003e Experience a sharp, satirical wit that takes on everything from ambition and prayer to the very act of writing poetry itself.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe American Experience:\u003c\/b\u003e From a trip to Opelika to a drive through St. Louis, these poems capture the vast, varied, and often contradictory soul of America.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Rodney Jones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46889853288597,"sku":"9780547518299","price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/x145_589770d8-65fe-4289-b740-3bb3cf6b3190.jpg?v=1769490679","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780547518299_imaginary-logic","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}