{"product_id":"the-inner-life-of-comics-9781735576275","title":"The Inner Life of Comics","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is a bone-deep weariness to this new collection of poems by Paul Juhasz. It's the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eweariness we've all survived after a year and more of isolation during the pandemic, but Paul's\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis deeper, his borne of a life fractured in middle age, of love found, then lost, of endings and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enew, tentative beginnings. There is also something I think of as classic Paul humor, an ability to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eface the worst that life throws at you and make a joke of it. Stare the hangman down, then make\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehim laugh, right before he pulls the lever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut there's more. Though darkness, \"the bear,\" always lurks (source, Paul reveals to us, of all\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egreat comedy), he has discovered in this collection something much finer than that, the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emysterious thing we call poetry. There are lines in these poems, prose and lineated, of surpassing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebeauty. There are moments in these lines, in these poems, when the comic rests and the poet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etakes over, and we find ourselves mesmerized and lifted into a kind of peace that lets us know\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul has travelled through the darkness and come out on the other side full of truths and beauties\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat sustain long after the laughter fades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Hank Jones, author of Too Late for Manly Hands\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-13577124\"\u003ePaul Juhasz\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Turning Plow Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.29d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781735576275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1735576271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE000000\"\u003eGeneral\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Turning Plow Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44426755735789,"sku":"9781735576275","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_e5f13a5b-2d17-43a9-acff-a69c5d1b0a17.jpg?v=1699987712","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-inner-life-of-comics-9781735576275","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}