Home
Now, Now
Barnes and Noble
Now, Now
Current price: $18.00
![Now, Now](https://prodimage.images-bn.com/pimages/9780822962632_p0_v3_s600x595.jpg)
![Now, Now](https://prodimage.images-bn.com/pimages/9780822962632_p0_v3_s600x595.jpg)
Barnes and Noble
Now, Now
Current price: $18.00
Size: Paperback
Loading Inventory...
*Product information may vary - to confirm product availability, pricing, shipping and return information please contact Barnes and Noble
In
, Jennifer Maier's second poetry collection, time is of the essence.
Moving with quantum ease through the porous membranes of the past, present, and future, the speaker wonders: What is each moment but the swirling confluence (or shy first meeting) of past and futureof what
, and what-has-not-yet-happened but will?
Such phenomenological questions are sparked by ordinary events: a friend's passion for jigsaw puzzles; an imagined conversation with a neighbor's dog; a meditation on the uses of modern poetry. Here, in language at once elegant and agile, intimate and universal, the author probes beneath the surface of happenstance, moving with depth, humor, and compassion into the heart of our shared predicament: that of loving what we cannot keep.
But if time in these poems is relative, it bends toward graceeven, as the title suggests, towards consolation. Taken together, the poems invite us to raise a glass to the way we're each "held light and golden in Time's mouth," and to savor something of the eternaldistilled, sparkling, already lostinside every
.