{"product_id":"the-wish-furnace-9781952593482","title":"The Wish Furnace","description":"Thoreau wrote, \"...I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.\" As well as a writer, Randy Blythe has been a plumber, a percussionist, an editor, a teacher, and a farmer. So it's understandable that a reader will encounter, in \u003ci\u003eThe Wish Furnace\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e-\u003c\/i\u003eBlythe's second full-length collection\u003ci\u003e-\u003c\/i\u003eabundant evidence that the poems' perceiver, like Thoreau, wants to inhabit every human moment. This is difficult, the reason why a Blythe poem that celebrates belief may be followed by a poem bent on questioning belief's worth. Blythe refuses easy binary thinking when a greater challenge looms. Sometimes labeled \"a religious poet,\" he denies that descriptor, choosing instead to explore matters of existence and spirit simultaneously, with the relentlessness of a born seeker.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Diane Kistner, Randy Blythe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Futurecycle Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.16d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781952593482\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Futurecycle Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40997225791603,"sku":"9.78195E+12","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_b4c69719-f673-455e-b447-b9bfa84b8703.jpg?v=1696948625","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-wish-furnace-9781952593482","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}