{"product_id":"a-memory-of-the-future-9780393651058","title":"A Memory of the Future","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZen-infused meditations on the limitations of memory, mortality, and the boundaries of human existence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eA Memory of the Future \u003c\/em\u003eby Elizabeth Spires is like a cup of tea for the weary. . . . [Spires's] metaphysical concerns are grounded in refreshingly thoughtful poems as the speaker considers small moments through a spiritual, often Zen perspective.\" -- Elizabeth Lund - Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\"Sprinkled with philosophical inquiries and Zen koans like that of the title, Spires's contemplative sixth collection opens with delicious wordplay.\" -- New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\"All the distinguishing characteristics we’ve come to associate with Elizabeth Spires’ poems—their shimmering clarity, verbal restraint, and self-interrogations—are enacted in this new work of meticulous surfaces and surprising depths…Spires’ consuming subject—the fluidity of time set against the immutable presence of death—is approached with Zen-sparked simplicity: ‘As one grows older, \/ there should be fewer \/ and fewer words to say.’ Yet those few words, as set down in \u003cem\u003eA Memory of the Future\u003c\/em\u003e, resonate with wisdom and insistent wonder.\" -- Michael Waters, author of Celestial Joyride\u003cbr\u003e\"With insatiable imagination, subtle music, stark candor, an ingenious sense of play, and an all-encompassing vision, Elizabeth Spires builds poem after poem revealing world within word within world. Her subject is nothing less than the feral innocence and courage of a ‘poised \/ and ready’ soul in search of meaning, open to ebullient joy and harrowing loss…Discovering grandeur in miniature, alighting on a mortal’s fleeting moment in a sublime landscape, Spires enlarges the possibilities of lyric. \u003cem\u003eA Memory of the Future\u003c\/em\u003e affirms her stature as one of the finest poets writing in English today.\" -- Phillis Levin, author of Mr. Memory and Other Poems","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402011418967,"sku":"9780393651058","price":19.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393651058.jpg?v=1730479132","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-memory-of-the-future-9780393651058","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}