{"product_id":"the-inner-life-of-comics-paperback","title":"The Inner Life of Comics - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Juhasz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a bone-deep weariness to this new collection of poems by Paul Juhasz. It's the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eweariness we've all survived after a year and more of isolation during the pandemic, but Paul's\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis deeper, his borne of a life fractured in middle age, of love found, then lost, of endings and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enew, tentative beginnings. There is also something I think of as classic Paul humor, an ability to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eface the worst that life throws at you and make a joke of it. Stare the hangman down, then make\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehim laugh, right before he pulls the lever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut there's more. Though darkness, \"the bear,\" always lurks (source, Paul reveals to us, of all\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egreat comedy), he has discovered in this collection something much finer than that, the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emysterious thing we call poetry. There are lines in these poems, prose and lineated, of surpassing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebeauty. There are moments in these lines, in these poems, when the comic rests and the poet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etakes over, and we find ourselves mesmerized and lifted into a kind of peace that lets us know\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul has travelled through the darkness and come out on the other side full of truths and beauties\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat sustain long after the laughter fades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Hank Jones, author of Too Late for Manly Hands\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 122\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.29 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 30, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42739683098687,"sku":"9781735576275","price":25.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/f65356eadd82608228df4ec7b63ebeb3.webp?v=1765157462","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-inner-life-of-comics-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}