{"product_id":"cruising-at-sixty-to-seventy-poems-and-essay-paperback","title":"Cruising at Sixty to Seventy: Poems and Essay - 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\u003eJim Tilley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCruising at Sixty to Seventy\u003c\/i\u003e is the second book from award-winning poet Jim Tilley. In three sections--Dear Wife, Dear Self, Dear Friends--the speaker, a physicist and mathematician by education, now retired from a career on Wall Street, reflects on everyday experience, finding grace and drama in life's smaller moments. As in Tilley's debut collection, \u003ci\u003eIn Confidence\u003c\/i\u003e, many poems use ideas, problems, and puzzles from physics and mathematics to explore personal relationships, such as \"Particle and Wave,\" in which a fundamental concept from quantum mechanics becomes a metaphor for the ripples and collisions on the fabric of family life. The book ends with a personal essay, \"The Elegant Solution\" (originally published as a Ploughshares Solo), about Tilley's relationship with his father based on the language of mathematics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJim Tilley earned a doctorate in physics from Harvard and worked on Wall Street for twenty years. His first collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eIn Confidence\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Red Hen Press in 2011. His poems have been published in literary journals such as \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSouthwest Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAlaska Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He has won the \u003ci\u003eSycamore Review\u003c\/i\u003e's Wabash Prize for Poetry, the New England Poetry Club's Firman Houghton Award, and an International Publication Award from \u003ci\u003eAtlanta Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Bedford Corners, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 9.18 x 5.96 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48394538385629,"sku":"9781597095365","price":22.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/OpjSfv8glF9781597095365.webp?v=1787163656","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/cruising-at-sixty-to-seventy-poems-and-essay-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}