{"product_id":"the-crossing-1","title":"The Crossing","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoseph Fasano's much anticipated fourth book, \u003ci\u003eThe Crossing\u003c\/i\u003e, is his most intimate yet. By turns lamentation and consolation, it confronts grief and gain, always trying, as the Polish poet Adam Zagajewski wrote, \"to praise the mutilated world.\" \"Immensity \/ will only dare to come to you,\" one poem tells us, \"when surrender is ready in your hands.\" Here are poems that know that to have a self is to be both a witness to history and responsible for it. \"History \/ is only the body trying to become \/ a story that will outlast it,\" Fasano writes, and yet these poems also seek the dignity of the individual, a meaningful communion with others in what's common: \"As long as love \/ runs,\" we read, \"it is earthsong; it is wild \/ to be ridden in its irons \/ to another world. Another world. This one.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDorothea Lasky writes, \"This is the poet I trust to see the world as it is, quietly writhing around us, like Kafka and Rilke before him.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cider Press Review","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52611887202621,"sku":"9781930781535","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/9781930781535ita_9c084f4c-6c46-445d-b0c6-07c3db084487.jpg?v=1785350574","url":"https:\/\/itascabooks.com\/products\/the-crossing-1","provider":"Itasca Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}