{"product_id":"x-in-the-tickseed-poems-paperback-softback-9780807179208","title":"X in the Tickseed; Poems (Paperback \/ softback) 9780807179208","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eX in the Tickseed\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePoems\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEd Falco (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780807179208\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 31 January 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e76 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 0.5 cm, 0.272 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\u003ci\u003eX in the Tickseed\u003c\/i\u003e is a gorgeous, riveting meditation on memory, mortality, art-making, and the complications of living. Equal parts lyric, narrative, and philosophical, Ed Falco's poems remind us that the world is beautiful and terrible in equal measures.\" - Erika Meitner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In its masterful control of language and form, its clarity and layered complexity, this book is itself a work of beauty, one that will last for a long while.\" - Eric Nelson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Both smart and heartfelt, these poems are meant to be not nibbled but devoured, again and again.\" - David Kirby\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFrom discursive essay-poems to tightly constructed lyrics, Ed Falco's \u003ci\u003eX in the Tickseed\u003c\/i\u003e examines a world that reveals itself through its mysteries, reflecting upon the ephemeral nature of all things. In the series of poems that bookend the collection, a speaker identified only as X reviews personal history and relationships, speculating, pondering, and questioning in the face of a baffling universe. Peppered between the X poems, artists as varied as Artemisia Gentileschi, Frank O'Connor, and Nick Cave surface, usually in poems posing as essays about their art. Other poems range from explorations of cultural perspective, as in \"A Few Words to a Young American Killed in the Tet Offensive,\" where a war resister addresses a young man of his generation who died in Vietnam, to the often playful \"An Alphabet of Things.\" Throughout, Falco's poems speculate on matters of life and faith, intensified by an awareness of death.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551792918808,"sku":"9780807179208","price":14.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/x-in-the-tickseed-poems-paperback-softback-9780807179208","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}