{"product_id":"not-your-happy-dance-9781646624362","title":"Not Your Happy Dance","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ryan Scariano\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Finishing Line Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Finishing Line Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - Places\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoems for the hopeless romantic to thumb through when their car breaks down in the rain on a lonely gravel road.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e****************\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere else-but in Ryan Scariano's \u003cem\u003eNot Your Happy Dance\u003c\/em\u003e-might we find an irresistible love poem about a sweetheart canning dill pickles? Where else might another beguiling poem praise that same woman by feting her delight-dance, her \"goofy little rumpus?\" In the infectious music of Scariano's poems, a lilac has \"loamy eyes\"; sugar ants are \"little seasonal keystrokes\"; and vinegar can \"inhale summer's glow \/ and exhale that long amber breath.\" Wending through this collection, each reader can be the lucky traveler who makes the claim that \"Muse Road snuck up \/ out of the fog \/ and kissed me.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e -Paulann Petersen\u003c\/strong\u003e, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat I have always loved about Ryan\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eScariano's work is its direct engagement with joy. Despite what the title of this zing-ful collection suggests, these are poems that break, like a rainbow might, through a spectrum of emotion grounded in pleasure, in awe, in wonder. After I read this book I sat back and felt held by the nouns of the world, real and imagined, seen and unseen. This is a poet who knows how to live into language and by doing so, he invites us to experience the splendor of fully being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e -Emily Kendal Frey\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Grief Performance\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSorrow Arrow\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRyan\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eScariano's poems are filled with the kind of deep attention that makes the reader long to be its object-to be a \"starry green shard of sea glass,\" a \"moth fluttering in the small white breeze,\" or \"the wounded heart on blackbird's sleeve.\" It's entirely possible to be seduced by a voice on a page. That's what happened to me six years ago when I read Ryan's first book, \u003cem\u003eSmithereens\u003c\/em\u003e, and I've been waiting for this book ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e -Henrietta Goodman\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eAll That Held Us \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eTake What You Want\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46451862110359,"sku":"9781646624362","price":1021.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781646624362.webp?v=1769138791","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/not-your-happy-dance-9781646624362","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}