{"product_id":"the-next-thing-always-belongs-9780982106655","title":"The Next Thing Always Belongs","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoetry. In a voice both down-to-earth and elusive  narrative and leaping by turns  these poems seek out the hidden connections beneath randomness and loss  from merit badges to galaxies  border collies to gravesides. In their irony and their playfulness  in what they say and what they dont  they help us to experience for ourselves the mystery that keeps interrupting our lives  a mystery finally deeper than words.  \"This collection brims with the mysteries  the epiphanies of startling  compelling juxtaposition and coexistence. Minor key  major key  dissonance  harmony: in these pages  we hear the odd  audible question; were blessed with the longed-for answer. Chris Andersons poems open their arms in an embrace so wide they astonish and buoy us. His is a world in which anything could really happen  and does. No matter how quirky  how unexpected  the next thingand the next and nextalways does belong in the luminous life of his remarkable work.\"Paulann Petersen  \"Odd  thoughtful  darting  swirling  funny  poignant  startlingthis is the most unusual book of poemstories and singingdreams you will ever read  period. Wrestlers and ukuleles  angels and spiders  the precision of rain  Mister Rogers and Abe Lincoln in heaven together  I mean  wow  and whoa  and for heavens sake shell out the fifteen bucks and go sit in the sun and read this straight through  marveling. Youll smile and pray. Trust me.\"Brian Doyle  \"Chris Anderson asks the big questions in The Next Thing Always Belongs  and answers them the way only poetry can: with the ineffable incense of confession  and wild leaps of juxtaposition. These poems are parables  told in the impossible logic of dreams. The result is a collection that circles the incomprehensible  and manages a grasp both fleeting and everlastinga collection that demands to be read and reread over the course of a lifetime.\"Tim Green  \"These poems are written with the confidence of a writer who can explore the capacity of language without fear. The title  taken from Richard Hugo  tells us something about Chris Andersons approach: let the poem find its way through the complications and confusions of translating experience into verse; believe that each seemingly reckless transition is in fact a leap of faith in the oldest  most profound sense. And it works. This is the direct indirection of enduring poetry.\"Richard Wakefield\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923840892981,"sku":"ByrdShop_0982106653","price":593.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780982106655.jpg?v=1794116914","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-next-thing-always-belongs-9780982106655","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}