{"product_id":"renaming-the-streets-book-john-stone-9780807112724","title":"Renaming the Streets","description":"\u003cp\u003eStone is not only a valuable physician, but a poet who is able to get his outstanding qualities of imagination and formal technique into a relationship that produces poems of great human value. --James Dickey \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRenaming the Streets, \u003c\/i\u003eJohn Stone's third book of poems, is a work that speaks to the future but remains mindful of the endless intersection of the past and present. Stone writes about the human experience in all its seasons: if there is suffering, pain, loneliness, there is also love, mercy, humor, and, always, a sense of wonder. In Rosemary, Stone describes the vulnerability of a traveler who falls half in love with a coffee-shop waitress. When, in The Bass, a city clicker takes his son fishing and they unexpectedly catch a fish, there is not only high humor, but at the end, a sudden contemplative tone: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThat fish won for us \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ea trophy\u003cbr\u003e which I keep here on my desk\u003cbr\u003e to remind me of that morning and of \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ehow unexpected the end may b\u003cbr\u003e ehow hungry\u003cbr\u003e how shining \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRenaming the Steets\u003c\/i\u003e is notable for its explorations within form: prose vignettes and a sonnet sequence are side by side. In the latter, the astonishing feats of the homing pigeon take on metaphorical depth: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIts house as handsome as a Henry Moore\u003cbr\u003e a prisoner in the rounded sleep of egg . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut then the chipping chisel of its beak-- \u003cbr\u003e a burglar on the perfect inside job--\u003cbr\u003e and with a novice's display of cheek \u003cbr\u003e what began as instinct ends as squab. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRenaming the Streets\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of cycles and circuits. The work is all of a piece, the voice that of a mature and meticulous craftsman, a distinguished presence in American poetry.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49798623887633,"sku":"CIN0807112720G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807112720.jpg?v=1751330129","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/renaming-the-streets-book-john-stone-9780807112724","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}