{"product_id":"the-acrobatic-company-of-the-invisible","title":"The Acrobatic Company of the Invisible","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdvance praise for \u003ci\u003eThe Acrobatic Company of the Invisible:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If George Looney's \u003ci\u003eThe Acrobatic Company of the Invisible\u003c\/i\u003e beautifully offers for our consideration a series of meetings, of light and grass, of figures in a photograph, of instants of space and time, it is above all a study of missed connections, of one awake and one asleep, of distances between word and meaning, the present and the absent, a face and a memory. And yet finally, throughout these poems there is music, there are sparrows, a moon that comes and goes, and the grace to counterbalance loss and departure.\" —Nancy Eimers, author of \u003ci\u003eHuman Figures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"George Looney has the uncanny ability to make readers smile while leading them through a valley littered with loss and a longing that 'haunts us more\/\/than the dead do.' Wryly observing that 'we keep [the dead] with us, still\/and outside time,' Looney offers music as a source of consolation to both the living and the ghosts living among us: 'An ibis calls out this morning,\/its song something\/both the dead and the living love.' Looney chooses not to succumb to sorrow, and the birds he summons in these achingly beautiful poems become metaphors for faith—'the faith\/that lets sparrows leap into air.'\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Nancy Naomi Carlson, author of \u003ci\u003eAn Infusion of Violets\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this collection, Looney dances as if no one were watching as he turns longing, sorrow, and loss into prayer. He has a gift for light—'Everything\/bejeweled this morning, as if remembered,' 'this woman's bare shoulder\/illumined by a four-in-the-morning moon' —and an ear for birds—wrens, doves and starlings that sing baroque, and for the way, like them, a trapeze artist leaps into thin air. And if that weren't enough, he offers us such seemingly effortless phrases as 'the stink\/and nervous ruin of his cigarette,' and 'the rush and stuttering of wings.' Go see the acrobats. You'll be glad you did.\" —Lola Haskins, author of \u003ci\u003eAsylum: Improvisations on John Clare\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book of ghost stories. Not the eyebrow-raising type streamed to our digital screens, but the specters of our pasts, conjured, not with joined hands or Ouija boards, but with that most clever of shape-shifters...memory. This is Looney at the top of his game! —Frank Paino.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In these stunning, spiritually powerful poems, George Looney does us readers a favor by becoming the voice inside us all, talking humbly and declaratively. Reading this book made me relax inside such a paradoxical stretch. It helped me. It liberated me.\" —Ken Meisel, psychotherapist and author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Itasca Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54526369562899,"sku":"9781930781634","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/3521\/2563\/files\/9781930781634ita.jpg?v=1785851885","url":"https:\/\/danuc.net\/products\/the-acrobatic-company-of-the-invisible","provider":"Danu's Wardrobe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}