{"product_id":"im-no-longer-troubled-by-the-extravagance-paperback","title":"I'm No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRick Bursky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI'm No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance \u003c\/i\u003eis a collection of poems that assign new meanings to the people and things of the past. The book moves in three sections through a fantastic landscape that maps human fragility. The poems in the first section speak to matters of the heart--intimacy and loss--punctuated by lovers who leave. The second section is comprised of prose poems chronicling misadventures and conspiracies: Russian spies on Wilshire Boulevard, artichokes that mate for life, and secret photographs of God. Finally, the third section pans out from individual experience, hosting the collective in fable-like reflections. Together, the poems in \u003ci\u003eExtravagance \u003c\/i\u003emark with fragile acceptance the surreal extravagance of being alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Relentless\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOne day we'll know how long\u003cbr\u003ethe dead have to be dead\u003cbr\u003ebefore they feel hunger.\u003cbr\u003eOne day it'll be summer forever.\u003cbr\u003eIn the meantime, the weather, \u003cbr\u003elooking for its cue, keeps an eye on me;\u003cbr\u003eand I keep whatever money's in my pocket\u003cbr\u003ecrumpled in a ball. A relentless\u003cbr\u003eresponsibility dogs me, and the funny thing\u003cbr\u003eis, these are the lyrics to a happy song.\u003cbr\u003eGo ahead, tap your foot, \u003cbr\u003esnap your fingers.\u003cbr\u003eWe're roasting a pig in the yard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRick Bursky \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eDeath Obscura \u003c\/i\u003e(Sarabande Books, 2010) and \u003ci\u003eThe Soup of Something Missing \u003c\/i\u003e(Bear Star Press, 2004), winner of the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize. He lives in Los Angeles where he works in advertising and teaches poetry in the UCLA Extension Writer's Program.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRick Bursky is the author of \u003ci\u003eDeath Obscura\u003c\/i\u003e (Sarabande, 2010); \u003ci\u003eThe Soup of Something Missing\u003c\/i\u003e (Bear Star Press, 2004), winner of the Dorothy Brunsmen Poetry Prize; and the chapbook, \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e (Hollyridge Press, 2005). He received his BFA from Art Center College of Design, and an MFA from Warren Wilson College. His work appears widely in such places as \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review, The Pinch, Gettysburg Review, Sycamore Review, Copper Nickle, Antioch Review, Laurel Review, Hotel Amerika, Southern Review, Conduit, Field, Iowa Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Journal, \u003c\/i\u003e among many others. Bursky currently lives in Los Angeles where he works in advertising and teaches poetry in the UCLA Extension Writer's Program.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 08, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44420412670035,"sku":"9781938160790","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/9731\/2595\/files\/kIhcKlxrrK9781938160790.webp?v=1781765010","url":"https:\/\/the-stone-owl-bookstore.myshopify.com\/products\/im-no-longer-troubled-by-the-extravagance-paperback","provider":"The Stone Owl Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}