{"product_id":"finishing-touches-9780990864905","title":"Finishing Touches","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom scholar-poet Ricardo Quinones comes his first collection of poetry since the critically-acclaimed \u003cem\u003eA Sorting of the Ways: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2011). \u003cem\u003eFinishing Touches\u003c\/em\u003e, Quinones fourth book of poems, is a purposeful combination of the old and the new.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe old, represented by \u003cem\u003eTeeming Americana\u003c\/em\u003e, has its logic in history and opens itself to dramatization while the new, \u003cem\u003eStation Crossings\u003c\/em\u003e, tends more towards philosophical gatherings and the quests and the needs of character types. The line of difference is marked by the first of the new poems, where reality of events seems to contradict the mythography of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePresented in prose, \"The Coda\" is followed by a \"defense of poésie,\" which then plays its part throughout the new poems. Thus, \u003cem\u003eStation Crossings\u003c\/em\u003e is made up of sections with two poems: the smaller, secondary one intended to counter, augment or disdain the primary, larger venture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ricardo Quinones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e 39 West Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/07\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780990864905\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuinones, Ricardo:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Ricardo Quinones was a scholar-critic, professor emeritus of Claremont McKenna College. He was the author of such prize-winning volumes as The Changes of Cain: Violence and the Lost Brother in Cain-Abel Literature (1991), Dualisms: The Agons of the Modern World (2007), and Erasmus and Voltaire: Why They Still Matter (2010).Mr. Quinones held academic positions as professor or visiting professor at many colleges and universities, including Harvard University, the City University of New York, UC Irvine, and the University of Kansas and served as president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, chair of the MLA's executive committee on comparative literature, member of the California Council for the Humanities, and member of the National Council on the Humanities. He received his B.A. from Northwestern University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"39 West Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43637827272819,"sku":"9.78099E+12","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_1ef12a9e-eaee-4da5-9a2f-48fd20be669b.jpg?v=1755604639","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/finishing-touches-9780990864905","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}