{"product_id":"9780989872454","title":"A Meal Like That","description":"With his uncommon common sense, Albert Garcia makes readers stop and pay attention. Again and again reading this collection I found myself halted by the simple astuteness of an observation, \"before I knew love is pain \/ wrapped in shining paper . . . .\" His unlikely choices of words or images often seem somehow exactly correct, once his context is studied, \"your hair plumed like ink from a squid.\" Best of all, an ongoing sense of wonder at life itself pervades these singular expressions of mortality and more. -Gerald Haslam, author of Coming of Age in California and Grace Period With extraordinary attentiveness to the world around us, Albert Garcia explores the important questions: How to find equilibrium in a universe where Isaiah's wolf and lamb do not dwell peacefully beside each other-where \"just the idea of standing on a volcano's shoulder...makes you brace for balance\"-where awareness means accepting the fragility and underside of each moment. I am grateful for Garcia's wise, humane and wide-awake look into these complexities-of daily life, of marriage, of personal and global history-that enlarges us with its insightful and compassionate clarity. --Susan Kelly-DeWitt, author of The Fortunate Islands Who wouldn't love A Meal Like That, a moment we look back on when the complexities of our family life and our own often-bewildering inner life mingle at a table, and we are happy and sated, if sometimes a bit unsettled? Over the years, Albert Garcia has become a master at isolating such intimate, revealing moments of wonder, and then evoking them in his well-crafted and graceful poems. In this collection, those moments are divided between memories of a boy growing up on a ranch in the Sacramento Valley and those of a young family man living in that same valley. His voice is quiet and his word choices are unpretentious, but make no mistake, this is a poet who offers up the best fare, poems that satisfy and that will endure. Take a place at the table, and may we offer you \"Cussing in the 4th Grade,\" \"Dig,\" \"Early Morning, Studying Art,\" or a little \"November Task\"? -Gary Thompson, author of One Thing After Another\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e| \u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAlbert Garcia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e| \u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eBrick Road Poetry Press\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e| \u003cb\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/b\u003eMay 21, 2015\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e| \u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e132 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e| \u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e| \u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e| \u003cb\u003eISBN-10: \u003c\/b\u003e0989872459\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e| \u003cb\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/b\u003e9780989872454\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Brick Road Poetry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48501158379825,"sku":"9780989872454","price":20.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0798\/8215\/8385\/products\/9780989872454.jpg?v=1710485315","url":"https:\/\/www.recomparo.com\/es\/products\/9780989872454","provider":"ReComparo.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}