{"product_id":"the-not-forever-9781890650889","title":"The Not Forever","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs the title of The Not Forever suggests  these poems take not only mortality  but also the impossibility of truly assessing mortality  as their endlessly inexplicable subject. Keith Waldrops language is  by turns  wry  brazen  brilliant  humorous  sorrowful  and entirely unforgettable as he focuses upon all that cannot be absorbed by the logical minds measure of aging and loss. Waldrop is a master at discerning what is recognizable within the not of our attention whether it is an attention to the future  the past  or to that instant we call the present  which is the most impossible to grasp. His canny meditations make the particulars of daily life shine with an uncanny brilliance as he assesses the quintessentially human inability to exact knowledge from the existence that we live  as well as from the inexistence that we each are veering toward. A major force in American avantgarde poetics for decades  Waldrop gives us an emotionally compelling  intellectually demanding articulation of what living in full awareness of the not forever means.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67931222147125,"sku":"ByrdShop_1890650889","price":347.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781890650889.jpg?v=1794212123","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-not-forever-9781890650889","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}