{"product_id":"a-penchant-for-masquerades-paperback","title":"A Penchant for Masquerades - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarolyn Martin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the universal to the personal, the formal to the experimental, Carolyn Martin's fourth poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eA Penchant for Masquerades\u003c\/em\u003e, takes an unflinching look at the fluidity of truth, time, identity, history, death, and relationships.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMartin time-travels with Neanderthals, Lucy, and Big Foot to 9\/11 to the future collapse of a holographic universe. She mines scientific discoveries, nursery rhymes, biblical characters, and the works of Issa, Horace, Yeats, Frost, Williams, Szymborska, and Collins in poems that are both playful and thought-provoking.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSince she believes reincarnation is a distinct possibility, she suggests that death need not be taken too seriously (\"Re-Entry Interview,\" \"A Case for Sudden Death\"). She riffs on an Issa haiku (\"Thoughts on a Translation\"), sits down to dinner with Horace (\"Notes from a Water Drinker\"), and promises literary revenge on a reviewer who negatively critiques this collection (\"To the Reviewer Who Missed Too Much\").\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMartin's forms run the gamut from sonnets, haiku, and pantoums to free verse, found poetry, and paratactic poems whose stanzas can be read in any order. A lover of language, she builds poems based on one word (\"Phonaethetics,\" \"Disambiguation,\" \"Stirring\"), and delights in re-stitching the words of others in surprising ways (\"Variations on Final Words,\" \"10 Variations on the 50 Most Quoted Lines of Poetry,\" \"90+ Titles Appropriated from Poetry 180 Hosted by Billy Collins\").\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA lover of all things poetic, Martin has created an eclectic collection for readers who have a penchant for words and who are open to believing in everything and nothing.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 132\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 12, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990172123357,"sku":"9781947021716","price":27.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/iYCxl8xD8c9781947021716.webp?v=1780361238","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/a-penchant-for-masquerades-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}