{"product_id":"at-some-point-paperback-softback-9780299355449","title":"At Some Point (Paperback \/ softback) 9780299355449","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAt Some Point\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid O’Connell (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780299355449\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 11 November 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e84 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm, 0.141 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“Plain-spoken, warm, and affectionate poems give way to deeper observation as O’Connell turns a wry eye on finitude and mortality. These poems never leave us behind, embracing a world in which even a ‘lummox’ (like us) can be ‘gobsmacked’ by ‘so many choices’ that ‘the whole universe seemed possible.’ This is a capacious and big-hearted book.” - Ronald Wallace, judge, Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Marvelous. Delicate, durable, intimate in feeling, and sweeping in view, \u003ci\u003eAt Some Point \u003c\/i\u003erewards belief in an American poetry that wants to ravel language, that’s keen to the mesmeric, that recognizes awe can be located in the everyday. Poems like these are what happens when grace and intelligence decide to take a walk.” - Colin Channer, Rhode Island Poet Laureate \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Consistently spare, precise, and thoughtful, these poems are, above all, intimate. Subjects are not merely observed but experienced and meditated upon until loneliness, joy, and grief are, as O’Connell writes, ‘observed as passing clouds, an innate meteorology.’” - Gary Fincke\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eTime is slippery. \u003ci\u003eAt Some Point\u003c\/i\u003e openly acknowledges this while exploring the intersections between past and present, childhood and adulthood, midlife and mortality. Joyously and solemnly tugging on the threads that connect us—to life, to the planet, to each other—David O’Connell finds meaning in the small things. An earworm, a sudden memory, the arrival of a fox in the neighborhood, even camaraderie among other patients awaiting colonoscopies—all are grist for O’Connell’s ability to view the world simultaneously anew and as it once appeared. From the quotidian to the profound, this is a collection that hovers around your consciousness, reshaping your own vision and insight.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eI.\u003cbr\u003e Late at Night, I Watch \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Planet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We’\u003cbr\u003ere Thinking of the Black Hole at the Center of the Galaxy\u003cbr\u003e Fresh Air\u003cbr\u003e I’\u003cbr\u003em Happy Because My Daughter Is Sad\u003cbr\u003e Intervale Cemetery\u003cbr\u003e Period Piece\u003cbr\u003e Frank O’\u003cbr\u003eHara\u003cbr\u003e The Physician\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI’\u003cbr\u003em Calling 911!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hunt\u003cbr\u003e You Must Act as Though You’\u003cbr\u003ell Live\u003cbr\u003e In Spring\u003cbr\u003e Let’\u003cbr\u003es Talk About the Weather\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e II.\u003cbr\u003e Watching My Wife Parasail\u003cbr\u003e The Yard Is Full of Light\u003cbr\u003e I Was Startled It Was Death\u003cbr\u003e We Rush to See Their Movies\u003cbr\u003e After\u003cbr\u003e The Forecast Calls for Snow\u003cbr\u003e My Friend Comes Back\u003cbr\u003e This Is How It Happens\u003cbr\u003e In College, We Were Assigned “\u003cbr\u003eThe Dead”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In Case You Were Wondering\u003cbr\u003e Watching My Daughter’\u003cbr\u003es Tap Recital\u003cbr\u003e The Past Isn’\u003cbr\u003et What It Was When It Was\u003cbr\u003e The Rational Animal\u003cbr\u003e You Were My First Fox\u003cbr\u003e Cathedral Ledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e III.\u003cbr\u003e Minor Planets of the Inner Solar System\u003cbr\u003e Oh My Goodness, Here Goes Your Body\u003cbr\u003e Procedure\u003cbr\u003e Avalanche\u003cbr\u003e As If There Were Lessons\u003cbr\u003e How to Tell the One About Fatherhood\u003cbr\u003e This Time\u003cbr\u003e Emitter\u003cbr\u003e I Read the Dead Are Returning\u003cbr\u003e The World as It Is\u003cbr\u003e Encore\u003cbr\u003e All Summer, the Rain\u003cbr\u003e Love Song\u003cbr\u003e Starter Home\u003cbr\u003e When I Hear It’\u003cbr\u003es a Buyer’\u003cbr\u003es Market\u003cbr\u003e The Elegant Universe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52530916851992,"sku":"9780299355449","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/at-some-point-paperback-softback-9780299355449","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}