{"product_id":"a-passable-man-paperback","title":"A Passable Man - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRalph Culver\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRalph Culver's is a poetry of great precision, almost delicacy, and of subtle power, deployed in poems that dwell in the ordinary and bring with them a sense of the extraordinary...; what lives between his lines is the shadow that haunts us all. In \u003cem\u003eA Passable Man, \u003c\/em\u003ehe interrogates a life in five parts: \"I could not keep from turning \/ to check, mid-step, \/ the footprints strung behind \/ in the climbing snow\" (from \"Prelude\"). This is a life shadowed by loss and regret, moved by \"the common fear, the common love\/ he fell out of, now into ...\" (from \"Boy at the Plate\"). The man in these pages is \"passable,\" in the sense of being human: flawed, and full of care. The book? It earns my highest marks. -Joan Aleshire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCulver's lyrical narratives in \u003cem\u003eA Passable Man \u003c\/em\u003eunfold elegantly, brilliantly.... [He] pierces his subjects-\"the last catamount,\" misunderstanding, bargainers, camping alone-with self-delighting insights...: \"The sounds of water as she rises from her bath \/ while I slice bread in the kitchen: \/ How can I still feel sorry for myself?\" ... Culver resolves his reveries with universal conclusions. \"If we open ourselves to quintessence rather than particulars,\" he writes in \"Resolute,\" \"we gain in clarity, the way a bee does not recall a flower \/ but does its purposeful gavotte to point the way \/ to an abundance.\" -Chard deNiord \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat to say in short compass of a book so rangy and compelling as \u003cem\u003eA Passable Man\u003c\/em\u003e? The collection raises so many themes and issues that brief commentary feels futile. At one point, Ralph Culver writes that \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGrace, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003edespite our meddling, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eholds doubt in check. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMay everything be true, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eand truth direct. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis truths, brilliantly revealed, \u003cem\u003eare \u003c\/em\u003edirect, to be sure, and often stark; but the poet also witnesses to the grace that has favored him with uncommon insight and all but matchless powers of speech. -Sydney Lea \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 114\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.27 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 24, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42706950783039,"sku":"9781952335297","price":25.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/a3e3d2aaa3ed007476244f4441edee6f.webp?v=1765042273","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/a-passable-man-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}