{"product_id":"stoney-seasons-paperback","title":"Stoney Seasons - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eR. Nikolas Macioci\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Macioci's poems lead us on a contemplative walk through the seasons. Closely attuned to nature, they linger on the details of tulip and milkweed, paint vivid images from childhood memories, meditate on impermanence and mortality, aware that \"there is no successful way\/to study death at a distance.\" Weeding the garden evokes thoughts of burial. The autumn trees \"scribble a signature of loss\/teach me how death can be\/the origin of perfect beauty\". Unsentimental, with the quiet beauty of acceptance, the poems accompany the reader \"on the mortal road\/of a temporary season.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Agnes Vojta, author of\u003cem\u003e A Coracle for Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"What strikes me the most about \u003cem\u003eStoney Seasons\u003c\/em\u003e is the organization, how it centers around each season of the year: winter, spring, summer, and autumn, which sounds simple, but is never something I would have thought to do. It is gripping in the way the seasons themselves are as you walk through them, stare out the window at them. And that doesn't really do the book justice in the way the reading does. I wanted to go back and read the entire book again, or just the season I'm in, because I did not think I got everything there was to get even though I read each poem more than once. This is a rare reaction to a book for me, but I think it is something you keep close and open frequently for what it offers.\" \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Kyle Laws, \u003cem\u003eThe Sea Is Woman, \u003c\/em\u003e 2020 Moonstone \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Press award, \u003cem\u003e Uncorseted, \u003c\/em\u003e Kung Fu Teachery \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Press, and \u003cem\u003eWildwood, \u003c\/em\u003e Lummox Press \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eR. Nikolas Macioci \u003c\/strong\u003eearned a PhD from The Ohio StateUniversity, and for thirty years taught for the Columbus City Schools. In addition to English, he taught Drama and developed a Writers Seminar for select students. OCTELA, the Ohio Council of Teachers of English, named Nik Macioci the best secondary English teacherin the state of Ohio. Nik is the author of fifteen books. Critics and judges called \u003cem\u003eCafes of Childhood \u003c\/em\u003ea \"beautifully harrowing account of child abuse,\" but not \"sentimental\" or \"self-pitying,\" an \"amazing book,\" and \"a single unified whole.\" \u003cem\u003eCafes of Childhood\u003c\/em\u003e was submitted for the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. In 2021, he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a Best of the Net award. In 2022, he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. More than two hundred of his poems have been published here and abroad in magazines and journals, including \u003cem\u003eChiron, Concho River Review, The Bombay Review, Humana Obscura, and West Trade Review. \u003c\/em\u003eHe won First Place in the 1987 National Writer's Union Poetry Competition, judged by Denise Levertov, First Place in The Baudelaire Award Competition, sponsored by The World Order of Narrative and Formalist Poets (1989), Second Place in \u003cem\u003eZone 3's \u003c\/em\u003efirst annual Rain-maker Awards, judged by Howard Nemerov (1989), and Second Place in the Writer's Digest annual competition, judged by Diane Wakoski (1991).\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 202\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 11, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42720112869439,"sku":"9781958182116","price":34.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/e0d4c0261459d2fe44e5d6e3eb7bd88e.webp?v=1765088054","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/stoney-seasons-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}