{"product_id":"sublimation-point-9781884800610","title":"Sublimation Point","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jason Schneiderman\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Four Way Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Four Way Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...[T]he tradition this young poet most significantly keeps alive in them is the great poetic tradition of wit as serious means. In such writing, wit -- as the old expression has it -- cuts to the quick.\" (Robert Pinsky for \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eSublimation Point \u003c\/i\u003eis like a perfect pop song, making the listener glad to be alive. Jason Schneiderman doesn't strive for complication: he wins us over with rueful plain-speaking. He has Anne Sexton's directness, Max Jacob's eye for incongruity. Tragedy enters the picture, and becomes the frame: nowhere do these poems forget their nemesis, mortality.\" (Wayne Koestenbaum) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Grave, sweetly questioning, often irreverently funny, Jason Schneiderman's poems about love and death, the Holocaust and family history, self knowledge and self deception give this book a range and tonal variety that is extremely rare for any poet, let alone a first book: Schneiderman has imagined his work broadly, and executed it with great skill, passion, and intelligence.\" (Tom Sleigh)","brand":"Four Way Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47892151107735,"sku":"9781884800610","price":1039.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781884800610.webp?v=1781185901","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/sublimation-point-9781884800610","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}